Extremely odd thing with Giganews DMCA?

I was reading APAS a few minutes ago via Giganews.

A message popped up on the screen asking me about transferring bookmarks. I
looked at the taskbar and saw it was Firefox. I assumed it was asking me if I
wanted to transfer my IE bookmarks to it. Neither IE or Firefox were running
at the time.

I answered the popup with OK. Next, Firefox opened up the following page:
http://www.giganews.com/dmca.html

The only things running at the time were Mercury, OE, and News Agent.

Grisoft AVG, MS Antispyware, and PGP were running in tray.

Has anyone else had this happen? I am not now or ever have posted or
downloaded any copyrighted materials. I have had this account with them for
about 1 1/2 years.

How in the heck did that happen? I checked my Firefox bookmarks and sure
enough, it looks like it transferred my IE bookmarks into it. But the page I
referred to that popped up was not one of the bookmarked pages.

I should add that this is a new PC. I have only set it up this weekend so
there are very few bookmarks. It is a Dell with XP Pro and the way it was
shipped included Dell bookmarks. The Dell bookmarks got transferred to
Firefox. That is how I know for sure it was Firefox asking to transfer
bookmarks.

Anybody have any clues as to what fired things off? Kind of scarey. I would
hate to think that Giganews can control Firefox on this PC. Should I dump
Firefox? Is there some exploit in it? I installed Firefox because I thought it
was secure. How the heck could it be remotely turned on? Remember, it wasn't
running at the time. It was remotely started by someone else.

Could it be I got a trojan? Don't know how. Everything on this PC (not much)
is legit software. Nothing strange.

Really wondering what the heck is going on? How? Why that page? Makes me
nervous as all get out.

AVG has completed a test of everything without finding any thing.

Regards,
roadburner
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