Hi Friends -
Earlier this evening, i sent my first message from gmail - a test message sent from FireFox browser logged in to gmail.
Shortly afterwards, i logged out of gmail and closed FireFox.
I noticed the disk activity light on the laptop panel flashing continuously and vigorously for a long long time, but i was not running any active programs at the time. Taskmanager showed nothing unusual running, but the disk seek light kept going and i could hear the drive thrashing about as though the entire thing was being scanned (ok, call me paranoid for coming to that conclusion, but that is what it felt like).
I unplugged the dsl cable dongle entirely from the computer to take it off the internet, but the flashing and thrashing continued. I plugged back in and it continued even longer.
Finally after about 5 more minutes, the following message appeared in a dialog box:
connection go google terminated prematurely; some data may have been transferred...
Now, i know that gmail is a google product, but i was not running anything that would cause google to want to transfer any data - i was not downloading from them and i expect they were not downloading from me.
Any gmail users out there have a similar experience, with disk thrashing and unexpected data transferring to google ( or from google ).
Thanks in advance for assistance.
love and peace,
joyce
PS - I learned something new tonight. Had heard of freeware and shareware, but not until now did i know about postcardware! Tucows explains it like this:
"Postcardware is a kind of freeware that requires only that the user send the software author a postcard as payment. This shows the software provider that someone is actually using the software and lets the user thank the provider personally. The postage stamp also indicates where in the world the software is being used."
I think that's fun!
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