Earlybird is kind of an Alpha version of Thunderbird (not even Beta) and should never be offered by any website - instead you should choose to install it yourself when you know where to find it. Also, updates for it only appear once a day - I would not know of any software updating itself every 15 seconds, which would make no sense at all. Since all this happened after a crash, chances are you may have been infected by some malware. I’d stop using Earlybird (or what claims to be Earlybird) rightaway and then do a proper system scan for malware and viruses. You can try these free programs to scan for malware, which work with your existing antivirus software: * [http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/default.aspx Microsoft Safety Scanner] * [http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free/ MalwareBytes' Anti-Malware] * [http://support.kaspersky.com/viruses/disinfection/5350 Anti-Rootkit Utility - TDSSKiller] * [http://general-changelog-team.fr/en/downloads/viewdownload/20-outils-de-xplode/2-adwcleaner AdwCleaner] (for more info, see this [http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/ alternate AdwCleaner download page]) * [http://www.surfright.nl/en/hitmanpro/ Hitman Pro] * [http://www.eset.com/us/online-scanner/ ESET Online Scanner] [https://support.microsoft.com/help/14210/security-essentials-download Microsoft Security Essentials] is a good permanent antivirus for Windows 7/Vista if you don't already have one. Windows 8/10 have antivirus protection [https://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-defender built-in]. Further information can be found in the [[Troubleshoot Firefox issues caused by malware]] article. * Next, make a back-up of your [[Profiles - Where Thunderbird stores your messages and other user data|Thunderbird Profile Folder]], just in case. Do not start Thunderbird to find the profile, but find it using a file explorer. * Now have a look at your Windows Programs listing (installed programs) and see if there is anything referring to Thunderbird or Earlybird that looks suspicious and remove it. You can or maybe even should also uninstall Mozilla Thunderbird from there - your data (email) and settings should be retained. * Reinstall Thunderbird from [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/ here]. * If you are sure there is no mailicious software on your system, it should be safe to start up Thunderbird, and everything should still be there. In case any mail content was removed by antivirus or antimalware products, let us know so any additonal steps may be needed to restore mail. Did this fix your problems? Please report back to us!

Earlybird is one of the four main development '''channels''' of Thunderbird. It does not refer to a version of Thunderbird. Release < Beta < Earlybird < Daily Firefox is Release < Beta (b#) < Aurora (a2) (developers edition) < Nightly (a1) If there are checkins on a channel that day then there is a update however there should not be multiple updates except for maybe a respin build. Earlybird and Daily channel builds are for Testers and not for regular users.

BuckDeke, Are you back on a regular version?