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Sleepwalking, Virus or Hacker?

Waking my computer up this morning, one of my for sale threads on Pelican was open in Firefox. That thread was last opened on 4/27 and I remember opening it.

I have both Firefox and Safari, but use FF 99% of the time.

Timestamp was 3:13AM

That's the strangest part. There was no timestamp trail to find the thread and open it.

Also, it was open as a "new post," that is the last part of the address was the Pelican thread ID followed by the thread title followed by "-new-post.html."

I have a Mac, use Avast and just a week ago ran a virus check with nothing found.

Now and again, Avast gives me the red virus screen of death when I click around on Pelican. Related?

My sense is it has to be a hacker who can open a window from my browser history, but couldn't actually close the window, or wanted me to know they have access to my computer.

Thoughts?
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