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submitted 4 months ago by Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I opened firefox After about an hour of the system being in standby and in theSponsored Links row there were 2 new entries

http:/ /bom07s30-in-x03. 1e100. net/ (I dismantled the URLs to prevent accidental clicks)

pnbomb-ac-in-x0e.1e100

I right clicked and searched in Google and it showed up as this

pnbomb-ac-in-x0e.1e100 Sponsored it disappeared after a while, just to be sure I ran sudo lsof -i and noticed firefox was connected to this url

maa05s15-in-x03.1e100.net

I am not sure if am infected or this is just a glitch(I obviously didn't click on the links)

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[-] breakcore@discuss.tchncs.de 96 points 4 months ago

1e100.net is google's catch-all domain. Many of their services run under this domain.

Read more here : https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/174717

It is a geeky pun, 1e100 is scientific notation for 1 followed by a hundred zeroes. This number is called a googol, which is similar sounding to google.

[-] h3rm17@sh.itjust.works 37 points 4 months ago

Indeed Google is named after the googol

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