The application displayed is PeerGuardian. This program checks both incoming and outgoing packets against a list of "evil" networks who may be against file sharing, and it is mostly used by P2P file sharers. It detected lots of outgoing connects to a DOD server on port 411. Port 411 is the usual port of Direct Connect hubs, and Direct Connect is - a file sharing application.
So what's really happening is that the OP's Direct Connect client tries to connect to DoDServer:411 and gets refused all the time by PeerGuardian. This could now either be a false alarm (that IP runs a "legitimate" DC hub) or that someone at the DOD provides a special DC hub as a trap, and anyone who connects to it and who shares copyrighted files may get sued; and to make people connect to such a server, they would post it on some public server list (so no directed attack is being done). The latter is actually what PeerGuardian is meant to protect against - its purpose is to protect file sharers against law enforcement.
With this, I don't dare to claim that the OP is violating copyright law - even if he just shares his own works or some Linux distribution packages, he still deserves privacy - this is just not their business. It seems to be no coincidence that the words privacy and piracy look similar, it's a fact that fighting piracy also destroys privacy and vice versa.
Therefore, what is shown on the screenshot is no act of port scanning. PeerGuardian blocks the P2P application from accessing that server, be it for a good reason or not. So: the Real WTF[tm] is that GeneWitch is using a "security tool" which he doesn't understand. However, such tools are rather useless if one does not understand them...