kuang2

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You should only be using one antivirus application. You implied you had more than one.

See the below links for more info on this:

http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=100282

http://isc.sans.org/port_details.php?port=17300

Are you saying that McAfee reported an actual infection or did it just say this port was open? McAfee supposedly fixes this. If not, you should ask them why since you just purchased it. They even say they fix it in the above link. However, as I stated above, you MUST only have one antivirus installed or you could make any of them ineffective. In addition, installing any antivirus program while another is already installed can cause a bad installation and some feature may never work. You can even break Windows Security Center's ability to detect whether an anitvirus/firewall is even installed.

 

Hopefully you completely uninstalled Norton/Symantec before installing McAfee. If not, my message still applies and there is about a 85% chance you still have stuff from Symantec running. Uninstalling Symantec is almost as bad as removing malware..

 

Run the tool from the below site and see what it tells you:

http://www.hackerwatch.org/probe/?affid=105-17&dtag=1mqj141&langid=1


Be patient while the tests are running, they take a while.

The Advanced Port Scanner will even let you select an individual port to scan. You can enter port 17300 there to see what the test reveals.