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    • leocg
      leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

      In fact I guess it could be anything in Fastly, including something related to Opera.

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      • mbaluta
        mbaluta last edited by

        @snbk97, why do you think it's Opera downloading? If it's indeed something related to imgur and you don't have any tabs with their content open, then maybe you have some extension that may be related?

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        • A Former User
          A Former User last edited by

          First time I ran into so many answers looking up an IPV4 address. nslookup at command prompt gives nothing. But the college here blocks some stuff so I pasted into google and got the pet fence company. I tried another search engine and got references to imgur. Using an online reverse ip lookup I get no domain. It seems to change with the breeze. 馃檪

          Pretty weird unless it is a dynamic IP address in the first place.

          Edit: Did nslookup of imgur.com and got 151.101.56.193 back.

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          • blackbird71
            blackbird71 last edited by

            First time I ran into so many answers looking up an IPV4 address. ... It seems to change with the breeze.
            Pretty weird unless it is a dynamic IP address in the first place.

            I agree. The main question, though, remains why an Opera installation would be accessing it repeatedly... particularly if it were a dynamic IP. It's hard to imagine a legitimate hard-coded IP linking to a dynamic address number.

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            • technewb
              technewb last edited by

              How does one know the Ip address of the site?
              More importantly, how do I check if opera is downloading anything in the background? Through the download bar on the upper right?

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              • leocg
                leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                How does one know the Ip address of the site?

                You can just search for it or can use a nslookup command or even do a traceroute or ping ones.

                More importantly, how do I check if opera is downloading anything in the background?

                There are programs for that. Or you can just observe your connection activity.

                Through the download bar on the upper right?

                Nope.

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                • technewb
                  technewb last edited by

                  There are programs for that. Or you can just observe your connection activity.

                  May I kindly know some of these programms? Thank-you

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                  • zalex108
                    zalex108 last edited by

                    Fiddler is one of them.


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                    • technewb
                      technewb last edited by

                      Fiddler is one of them.

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                      Thanks a lot for the info! I have checked it out and it seemed beyond my knowledge. I will try to use similar programs such as TCP view.

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                      • A Former User
                        A Former User last edited by

                        You seem forgetting something.

                        Qihoo reported AkerBeltz recently among other things.
                        If you don't keep your protection tight, one of those viruses might use your workstation as a node or part of their network.
                        Just saying, it is possible.

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                        • pytak0703
                          pytak0703 last edited by

                          Signed in just to confirm this still happens.

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                          Continued full throttle load lasting several minutes. Ready to discontinue using Opera (or at least Opera Developer) for the first time in a while since I started in 2004, and excluding the brief moment between 12.x and re-implementing features to Chromium.

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