On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Sean Burns <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 05:44:48AM -0600, Sean Burns wrote: >> I submitted a service ticket to the IT department. Will let you >> all know if they find anything. > > It was a rootkit. He couldn't find the name for it, couldn't even > find a reference to it on the Web, but if he finds any info he'll > let me know. It was the first time he's seen this one and he said > it gave him a really rough time. I can't recall the name of the > program he used to get rid of it, but three virus scanners and > Spybot didn't catch it. And it affected Firefox, IE, and Opera. > Chrome wasn't affected by it though. Not sure why.
One possibility is that Chrome uses its own DNS servers before using the ones assigned by DHCP. That is similar to how I've setup my machine to use OpenDNS. Another possibility is that Chrome has the correct IP address for a URL in its cache from prefetching during previous browses: http://blog.chromium.org/2008/09/dns-prefetching-or-pre-resolving.html Both of those are just guesses. Regards, - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
