Okay, so context, I’m a University student and I use ESET for my laptop’s protection. I’ve been attending school for about a year now with ESET and ESET VPN to protect my laptop as I connect to my school’s Wi-Fi. Whenever I forget to turn on ESET VPN before I start browsing the internet or whatever, sometimes I get these yellow notifications that read “Network threat blocked.” I don’t know exactly where these “Network threats” come from. I asked a staff member from the IT department for an answer where these may potentially be coming from, he actually told me that he uses ESET too and often gets these notifications whenever he connects his personal laptop to the school’s Wi-Fi. He told me that “It’s probably another student. They’re always trying to hack the database or something to boost their grades or find answers to a test coming up, and we always have to track them down and report them to the campus or city police department.” Not sure why a student would be constantly be trying to hack a school, let alone another student’s computer. He assured me that it’s probably fine because literally everyone connects to the school Wi-Fi with their iPhones, Androids, Laptops, and not everyone uses ESET (Funny enough, I actually did catch a couple of student using Mcafee during my time here). Most of the time I just close the notifications, and I turn on VPN, however, a thought popped into my head and wondered “what should I even do if I did accidentally clicked the prompt that says ‘Change the handling of this threat’ and clicked ‘Allow’?” Not that I would ever do such a thing, but what should I do if I accidentally did do such a thing? Where do I go to remove/disallow/block the “threat” I just allowed? I’m mainly asking so I know what to do if I ever end up in this situation.
Sidenote: I don’t want to take screenshots of my desktop to catch these notifications, so I took screenshots off my iPhone through Google images so I can show what I’m talking about.
