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Why am I receiving false notifiations of a Mozilla Firefox Virus that pops up in my Windows notification area?

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Why am I receiving false notifications of a Mozilla Firefox Virus that pops up in my Windows notification area?

Why am I receiving false notifications of a Mozilla Firefox Virus that pops up in my Windows notification area?

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Because you have most likely allowed a sketchy site to push that content in past. See https://support.mozilla.org/questions/1477219 for details and how to remove those permissions.

(The notification will have an address of the site that sends you that content in fine print in the notifications.)

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