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Re:How the most popular Chrome extensions affect browser per... by lordlimecat on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @01:38PM (#23541814)
Inspecting your PC's traffic from a sniffer on your PC to find a rootkit seems like a fool's errand.

If something has driver / kernel level privileges it can trivially hide such traffic from any sniffer you have running.

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Re:How the most popular Chrome extensions affect browser per... by eyegor on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @05:49PM (#23544664)
Yes, that's why I said to inspect the router's traffic
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