I noticed a few days ago that about 50 ports were being scanned inside of my network once aday. Doing a Anti-malware and virus scan did not show any results. I installed a process monitor to monitor the processes and network activity on the affected machine as well as using Glasswire and Wireshark. It showed that Avast was doing the port scanning. I made sure that the "Home Network Security" was turned off but it still continued to happen once a day - everyday. I finally un-installed Avast and it stopped. Has anyone else seen this type of problem? Could my machine be infected and the Mal-ware is using avast some how for the port scanning? I am running the free Avast.
Any help or suggestions are much appreciated.
