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by bulltale 4970 days ago
Some ideas:

- Do the bookmarks have any extra info? For example the links to the HULU pages. Do they contain parameters (such as ?campaign=fb) which could point to the origin of the bookmarks? - Try to reproduce. Remove/save some bookmarks, and visit the same pages you visited before (esp. FB) and see if the bookmarks reoccur. - Use little netstat to monitor connections. See if you spot something odd. But this is an time-intensive method.

It can be spooky when odd things like these happen on your pc. But many times it is just a confluence of circumstances. You could see this as an incident - when it reoccurs, then you have something to research. At that moment, put it on superuser or the likes. Probably you get better answers then here :)

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The bookmarks have no variables at the end, unfortunately. All the URLs look like this: http://www.hulu.com/watch/419957

I've visited everything i visited up until a few hours before this happened & nothing. Not a single video or random url popping up in my history.

I dont have any other devices that were even on at this time, so it wasnt google chrome history syncing from another one of my devices.

One thing that has been brought up is seeing what devices are synced with my google account.. and seeing if somebody else somehow has their browser (and their history) synced with my account... and thats why it's showing up. I doubt it because im pretty protective of my credentials, but you never know.

I'll report back what I find.

Looked into it, and this is definitely not the case.

Google Chrome hasn't synced for over a week: http://imgur.com/WmrAS

And my laptop is the only one thats accessed my account all month: http://imgur.com/NeL01

You're probably right in saying 'when things happen to our comps... its spooky... but more or less not a big deal'. But it just happened again so I'm doing locking down my google account and then reinstalling Mountain Lion from scratch to be safe. As a developer, i have way too much of my clients stuff on here to risk anybody being on my comp, even if it's a false alarm. Thanks for the input though.