"A few days back I edited my hosts file by adding the line 127.0.0.1 chrome-navigation-error [dot] info When I did that and then ran netstat, I found lots and lots of connections to the chrome-navigation-error domain. Does that mean that the hosts file was directing netstat to *display* connections to or from the local host *as if they were* connections to chrome-navigation-error? When I re-edited the hosts file to say 0.0.0.0 chrome-navigation-error [dot] info those connections vanished. Just curious, really. But it was alarming at the time." - Nathan Rein