Norton Firewall Warning

Wondering if anyone has run into this one before.

I am running a Cable Connection to the internet and have Norton Firewall 2001.

I have had the Norton Firewall installed for the past 6 months now and ran into this message for the first time.

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Outbound TCP Connection is trying to connect to the internet.
Process name is " ~Â "
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I blocked communication not knowing what this was.
Anyone ever hear of this one before?

Thomas.

 

That's your basic oddball, for sure!

It might have been a system hiccup, or maybe a virus. Have you done an all-files virus scan?

 

Yes.

I have Norton Antivirus with the latest defs and have no viruses detected on the entire system.

Did a full scan just after the "hiccup" thinking I was infected with a virus but it found nothing.

Truly a wierd one!
Anyone else got an idea?

Thomas

 

I would suggest a FULL SCALE system check for Trojans and/or Spyware.

Cleaner3 from Moosoft with the REGISTERED and up to date version. No trial version should be used here.

Moosoft has had several updates recently. Latest was today.

And Ad-Aware with latest ref file.

I believe the Odd Ball that I had one time was a Troajn that got in with some downloaded software.

BillyBob

 

Hello.

Thanks for the further info.

Had ad-aware that I downloaded a few weeks ago but neglected to download the latest ref file. Downloaded the latest ref and found Alexa on my system. Maybe Alexa was the culprit.

A full scan with Norton AV with the latest virus defs from Jan 23 finds no viruses on my system.

Might have been the Alexa, considered by some to be spyware?

Thomas.

 

Might have been the Alexa, considered by some to be spyware?

Ad-Adware has been finding Alexa on my machine lately also.

But it was ONLY in the registry. At least that is where it was found on my machine.

It was under ****Microsoft Extensions.

BillyBob

 

"Ad-Adware has been finding Alexa on my machine lately also.

But it was ONLY in the registry. At least that is where it was found on my machine.

It was under ****Microsoft Extensions. "


Yea and it's the new updated Ad-Adware that finds it. Yet you really did not have the Alexa did you.
If you have I.E. it is install by using the Windows Update. But then only if you download tru it.