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brandon on Feb 19, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Chrome connects to three random domains at startup

This is common practice if the queries appear to be originating from worms like Conficker, etc. Others have reported that this behavior of Chrome's can set off false IDS alarms for the same reason.

windsurfer on Feb 19, 2012 [–]

And it's also common practice to send all bad DNS queries to an ad-ridden search page. Go figure.

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