Crazy set of new problems

I have a laptop I recently upgraded to WIN 7 from XP. It has been working well with WIN 7 but a few days ago the following things started happening:

1) windows search window keeps popping up, sometimes multiple windows, sometimes one at a time as the get closed, sometimes none at all

2) the Bing Home page appears in the Reading Panel of Outlook 2010 when reading email or looking at calender

3) in browser (Firefox or IE) when typing into google search box in main pane of browser cursor keeps jumping up into the google search box in the task bar of the browser


I have done updates, scans, reboots etc. Problem seems to have no pattern in that sometimes the laptop runs as normal and others all the things a bove start happening.

Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance!!

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Trying Malwarebytes now, could it be a setting that got inadvertently changed?

Malwarebytes reports no malware found. Trying avast now

Clean install and reformat 7. Upgrades have issues.

not sure what Frostmourne is on about but AVAST found a threat called "plugin-kolobok.pdf" which it has isolated. Anyone know what this is?

which BTW has had no effect on my problem

jambonay said:

I have a laptop I recently upgraded to WIN 7 from XP. ...

I didn't think you could even do that. Isn't the upgrade meant only for Vista?