Why does Norton Security detect PLEX activity virus?

What is Plex doing here that activated a security warning?

It’s a false alarm.
The domain name xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789.plex.direct is used by Plex to test for a certain feature of your network’s DNS resolver. To then work around it, when detected.

My private opinion: anything with “Norton” in the name stopped being useful shortly after Peter Norton sold his business back in the 1990s.

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Thanks for the explanation. I’ll mark this one solved.

Ya, Norton is a poor virus tool. I consider it more like bloatware or spamware.

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