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Okay this is weirdly creepy. This has been happening for a few months now.

Novastor.com logs

Resource monitor logs show my computer connecting to novastor.com despite currently not being installed. I searched my drives and apparently it was installed a long time ago (2014) and was removed.

My Firefox addons show nothing about novastor.com.

Is there malware or spyware in my computer or something?

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  • does your installation of Everything(voidtools.com) come from about the same time NovaBackup or another Novastor product was installed?
    – Frank Thomas
    Jul 8, 2016 at 12:36
  • No I wasn't even using this computer when Novastor was installed.
    – pinix
    Jul 9, 2016 at 5:39

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Well I finally figured it out:

It's because of the etc/hosts file. The very first entry is what Resource Monitor recognizes as the hostname:

127.0.0.1  novastor.com

# ...

127.0.0.1  localhost

Weird.

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