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Why am I being told I'm connected when I'm not?

Every once in a while the notification balloon saying that "magma.ca is now connected, speed 44.0 bps...." comes up while I am definitely not connected. I am suspecting a software glitch but can not, of course identify it since I am just an ordinary user of a PC. I have run all kinds of cleaning programs to no avail. If you have some idea what could cause this, I would be grateful if you would let me know. Running Windows XP, Home and SP3 installed.

"definitely not connected."?

I beg to differ. That's exactly what that little balloon means.

And depending on what you mean by "cleaning program", I'm not at all surprised they didn't help.

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