This meant that something on my computer was exchanging information with somewhere else on the Internet.
Normally this wasn't a problem, because the icons always lit up when I was accessing the 'Net, but this time I hadn't been accessing the 'Net.
This activity went on for several minutes and during that time a great deal of data was exchanged.
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