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Open DNS stats

velocirafter · 2009-04-11 20:38:47

I was looking at my network stats on the Open DNS site and there was 1464 requests made to .phish.mcafee.com this is nearly 100 times the next site in the list. There is also exactly 1464 text string requests made for the same day. Does anyone know what exactly they are, they seem pretty legit if they are trying the mcafee…

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11-04-2009 9:38pm

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velocirafter

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I was looking at my network stats on the Open DNS site and there was 1464 requests made to .phish.mcafee.com this is nearly 100 times the next site in the list. There is also exactly 1464 text string requests made for the same day.

Does anyone know what exactly they are, they seem pretty legit if they are trying the mcafee site but it does seem an excessive amount. Only one of the laptops in our house runs mcafee.

Also the address above is not a typo it starts with a dot

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#2 11-04-2009 9:41pm
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Its possibly to do with this, it checks websites you visit to filter out bad ones

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