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permissions manager contains web addresses that i've never visited

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There are thousands of websites listed in the Permissions Manager that have no relationship to any site I have ever visited. Where do these come from and should I be worried that someone is in my computer?

There are thousands of websites listed in the Permissions Manager that have no relationship to any site I have ever visited. Where do these come from and should I be worried that someone is in my computer?

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I think I've figured it out. The Permissions Manager list seems to fill up when I do a Spybot Immunization. It seems that it adds all of those sites. I know that it puts those sites into the "Exceptions" and blocks them.

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hello, could you go to the firefox menu ≡ > help ? > troubleshooting information, copy the contents of that page and paste them here into a reply on the forum? this might give us a clue what is going on...

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I think I've figured it out. The Permissions Manager list seems to fill up when I do a Spybot Immunization. It seems that it adds all of those sites. I know that it puts those sites into the "Exceptions" and blocks them.