App update badge always locks up

Everytime an app update badge pops up on my screen it locks up. When I scroll my mouse over the badge it shows the rainbow pinwheel. I can clear this be restarting my computer but why does it lock up everytime and is there a way to fix this?

Hmm. I just bought a MBP Retina 2.7 from apple.com, and am having a very similar experience. The app store tells me I have Angry Birds installed and need to download the update. I don't have Angry Birds installed on my MBP... but I do have it on my iPhone (which, I believe, is different, as it's a different OS altogether). When I log in to update it, it has [email protected] as my login (whom I figure is the original owner of this update), which is definitely NOT my login! And my MBP came SEALED in a BOX, all wrapped up, new. So I wonder what gives? I have tried to locate the app store preferences, so I can trash them, but they are nowhere to be found, that is, if they're still called
com.apple.appstore.plist or com.apple.storeagent.pllist under Mountain Lion...
I have logged into my Apple account and everthing is correct, so I'm not sure what's going on here. I've tried signing out of the App store, and it crashes every time and signing back in with my name and PW can get me back in, but I have that ghostly update hanging there, that I never ordered, which of course won't work because I don't have the correct password for the Russian e-mail address. Very weird. How can I delete the update file?
The next step, I suppose, is an option-restart and disk utilities check, then maybe a reinstall of Mt.Lion. Ugh.

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