Re: Mail and Safari opening randomly

Hi.
I sspoke to Apple support over the w/e. they feel it was prob malware. They got me do delete lots of stuff from the library but mo avail. In the end I was advised to reinstall from Time Machine from a period before the problem arose. All went well until I got a message saying "Unable to restore from this disk".
In the end I did a complete reinstall, which was v tedious and will take an hour or so per day for a week to get the computer back as it was. The odd thing is that the files on the Timemachine disk are all checking out ok and the disk verifies. Normally I have a copy of Supaduper to act as a second backup, but just this once...........
Best wishes
Andy

Hi Hackintosh
I have exactlly the same problem as described by Doug, but I am running latest version of Lion (10.7.3). It doesn't seem to occur if I log in as another user, and I have run both clamxav and cocktail.
Sometimes Safari opens spontaneously at a Bing search page with a load of nonesense in the search box, or sometimes the Mail app opens with an email written with similar nonsense, but empty address fields.
It is v irritating.
I have quite a few login items:
Day One agent (a journal app from the app store)
Jettison
Growl
Eye TV Helper
Busycal Alarm
Rogue Amoeba Schedule Helper
Jawbone updater
Total Finder
Fantastical
Radioshift Helper
Dragon Express
Hazel Helper
Insync
Dropbox
Thanks for your advice

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