<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Opera background accessing sites from 2 years ago?]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">I used to regularly access a site, lets call it ... <a href="http://mail.abc.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">mail.abc.com</a> ... but have not done that for ages.</p>
<p dir="auto">That site is going out of use and its certificate is now out of date.</p>
<p dir="auto">My BitDefender ant-virus reports that every 15 minutes Opera is accessing that site 4 times in quick succession (BitDefender is blocking because of the old cert but prompts me every time)</p>
<p dir="auto">I have cleared history (all options that I could see in Advanced) back to "All time" and cannot stop this happening</p>
<p dir="auto">Doing a text search in the profile (?) folder I found 4 files have the relevant text string (<a href="http://mail.abc.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">mail.abc.com</a>)...</p>
<p dir="auto">... AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable\Local Storage\leveldb\000005.ldb (1 hit)</p>
<p dir="auto">... AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable\Preferences (1 hit)</p>
<p dir="auto">... AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable\Preferences.backup (1 hit)</p>
<p dir="auto">... AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable\Top Sites (4 hits)</p>
<p dir="auto">I suspect that Preferences is not relevant because the string is in the section "removed"</p>
<p dir="auto">As a first guess I was thinking that the 4 entries in "Top Sites" might be responsible but I can't see how to clear out Top Sites history (I can't see the url listed anywhere when I edit that main page)</p>
<p dir="auto">Any suggestions ? I'd prefer not to have to create a new profile from scratch but if that's needed please point me at docs for how</p>
<p dir="auto">TIA<br />
Steve</p>
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