Settings open automatically every five minutes

This is a strange one. About every two to five minutes the 'Sound' settings window opens and becomes the active window. It happens when I am typing, using the mouse, or even doing nothing at all with no programs open. When I just leave it open, it will come to the foreground with the same regularity.
It is annoying and counterproductive but the biggest concern is that this is evidence of something hostile--perhaps some malware. ps -a does not show anything weird but I might not know it when I see it. There must be a process that is doing this, perhaps there is a way to debug and log that?
This has been happening for two days. No new software, updates, or hardware in that period.
2009 Map Pro, 2 2.26 quad core cpu w/32GB RAM booting OSX v10.9.2
I did search the forums before posting.
Thanks

I've never had this problem before but u might have something in your preference that does this so next time u can look in every single file on your computer because as well as i know, the preferences have alot of wacky things or it could be some code your typing on your keyboard that does this because command has alot of weird codes. I hope this helped you. bye
(p.s it may also just be a bug)

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