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<blockquote data-quote="silversurfer" data-source="post: 1063597" data-attributes="member: 26718">Confirmed. I have Kaspersky Free on my host when testing malware samples in my VM (VMware Pro). Kaspersky does scan your network and specific firewall ports:[ATTACH]279501[/ATTACH][URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://support.kaspersky.com/kaspersky-for-windows/21.8/68162[/URL]<table style='width: 100%'><tr><td>Treat port scanning and network flooding as attacks</td><td>Network Flooding is an attack on organization&#039;s network resources (for example, web servers). This attack consists in sending a massive amount of traffic to exhaust the traffic capacity of a network. As a result, users can&#039;t access organization&#039;s network resources. 
 
Port scanning attack consists in scanning UDP- and TCP ports, as well as network services on the computer. This attack allows to determine computer’s vulnerability level before even more dangerous types of network attacks. Port scanning also allows hackers to determine computer&#039;s OS and choose OS-specific attacks for it. 
 
If the toggle is on, the Network Attack Blocker component blocks port scanning and network flooding.</td></tr></table></blockquote>

[QUOTE="silversurfer, post: 1063597, member: 26718"] Confirmed. I have Kaspersky Free on my host when testing malware samples in my VM (VMware Pro). Kaspersky does scan your network and specific firewall ports: [ATTACH alt="kn.png"]279501[/ATTACH] [URL unfurl="true"]https://support.kaspersky.com/kaspersky-for-windows/21.8/68162[/URL] [TABLE] [TR] [TD]Treat port scanning and network flooding as attacks[/TD] [TD][I]Network Flooding[/I] is an attack on organization's network resources (for example, web servers). This attack consists in sending a massive amount of traffic to exhaust the traffic capacity of a network. As a result, users can't access organization's network resources. [I]Port scanning attack[/I] consists in scanning UDP- and TCP ports, as well as network services on the computer. This attack allows to determine computer’s vulnerability level before even more dangerous types of network attacks. Port scanning also allows hackers to determine computer's OS and choose OS-specific attacks for it. If the toggle is on, the Network Attack Blocker component blocks port scanning and network flooding.[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/QUOTE]

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