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Wasn't sure where else to put this so I thought I'd ask here:

I was visiting a dodgy website to download a video from YouTube at 720p; malwarebytes browser guard warned me that it blocked something (a website or link something), and a different malwarebytes notification told me it stopped an outbound connection having something to do with firefox.

I also had qbitorrent running and malwarebytes has always hated my torrent applications (previously also complaining about Azureus/vuze), giving me tons of notifications about them.

Eventually though Avira warned me that it had stopped an intruder that had port scanned me and on multiple ports, something I didn't even know was a thing.

I've disabled the internet connection on my PC for now, is there any advice you guys have? I've never seen a warning like this from Avira before.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You don't need any other antiviruses than Windows Defender, using uBlock Origin, and not clicking dodgy things. Use yt-dlp for downloading YouTube videos or anything like so