What does port scan mean ?

When im downloding with you torrent always a messege come up every now and then says ,port scan denied . Your computer is protected

Answer #1

It’s probably checking to see if your ports are correctly forwarded, to bypass your system’s firewall of ports.

But torrents are usually for illegal content, so I can’t help much more than that.

Answer #2

u need to open and foward a port to your torrent client. when it says your port scan I sclosed its because you haven established a listen port for your client

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