302578 - Mozilla auto-launches repeatedly

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Peter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511

Mozilla automatically launches itself repeatedly about every 5 mins with a new
Mozilla window, displaying a Google search page listing several sites beginning
with www.mozilla.org.  In the Address window is "keyword:%1" and in the Google
search window is "%1"
I searched through the Preferences but cant find anything related to it.
It started after I installed Mozilla 1.7.8 over 1.7.1

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Note on "Reproducibilty": it does this of its own accord even when the pc is
idle & when there are no apps (including Mozilla) open, as well as when there
are apps open.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Close each Mozilla window but it keeps on re-launching.


The whole suite works as per normal - mail client & browser - even when the
re-launching takes place.

Comment 1

[Hermann Schwab]

*** Bug 302580 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Peter]

I've since discovered that there's a malware/spyware causing this.  I deleted
Mozilla & now IE opens up automatically. 
I've used every possible spyware & anti-trojan program plus Norton & NOD32 but
to no avail.
What I've noticed is that "rundll32" always appears in the Task List.  After
I've "ended" it, sometime later IE opens up again & the file is in the list
again.  No matter how many times I end it's task, IE opens up & the file is
there again.
Annoying!

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Not a Mozilla bug.