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My test taxes the computer more than a normal user and involves keeping Wi-Fi on, cranking the screen to full brightness, turning off all power-saving features, keeping email retrieval going in the background and playing an endless loop of music.

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Any normal Facebook user knows a few of these people.

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These actions can occur in the background while the user is seeing what appears to be a normal, harmless web page.

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Under normal conditions, this requires the user's computer to send a request to the host computer, which then sends a response back to the user.

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