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<blockquote data-quote="jg09155" data-source="post: 400877" data-attributes="member: 31663"><p>Since this Tuesday at the office (we're all running macs) the internet keeps going down. </p><p>I called the ISP, they told me that one of the machines looks like it has a virus running, one of them is port scanning- and that overflowed the router and froze it.</p><p>Turns out my personal MacBook Pro matches the IP address he gave me for the port scanning machine. I was FTP'd into a server and downloading a website for backup. </p><p>He said something like ports 4400- 58,000 were being scanned sequentially and that made it seemed like there was a virus on the computer, I was shocked- and told him that we were all on macs. Perhaps the FTP client (called "fetch") failed to connect to one port and tried another and another ect. But, the tech guy also said that it wasn't on FTP protocol.</p><p>Today I've been working on securing my machine. I stopped using the Wi-fi, turned on my firewall ( I know, bad idea to not have it on ) and installed ClamXav and Little Snitch. </p><p></p><p>Perhaps I have some kind of malware? Whats going on here? </p><p>Help!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jg09155, post: 400877, member: 31663"] Since this Tuesday at the office (we're all running macs) the internet keeps going down. I called the ISP, they told me that one of the machines looks like it has a virus running, one of them is port scanning- and that overflowed the router and froze it. Turns out my personal MacBook Pro matches the IP address he gave me for the port scanning machine. I was FTP'd into a server and downloading a website for backup. He said something like ports 4400- 58,000 were being scanned sequentially and that made it seemed like there was a virus on the computer, I was shocked- and told him that we were all on macs. Perhaps the FTP client (called "fetch") failed to connect to one port and tried another and another ect. But, the tech guy also said that it wasn't on FTP protocol. Today I've been working on securing my machine. I stopped using the Wi-fi, turned on my firewall ( I know, bad idea to not have it on ) and installed ClamXav and Little Snitch. Perhaps I have some kind of malware? Whats going on here? Help! [/QUOTE]
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