Whence "background file activity" dialogue box?

[Black Landlord]

While switching windows (or it might have been btw Firefox and the Finder) I caught a glimpse of a little window with a rapidly moving progress bar which said "background file activity". Googling suggests this is related to Dreamweaver, which is not installed on this mac (an iBook). Anyone have an idea of what else this could be?
OS 10.4.11, only FF and Dashboard showing as running.

[modelamac]

Tried to replicate it in FF beta in Leopard, but failed.

[Black Landlord]

Thanks.
First time I've seen it after years of FF on this iBook. It happened quickly but I didn't get the feeling it was directly related to Firefox.

[Black Landlord]

FWIW I found 2 things in my login items- iTunes Helper and iCal alarm scheduler-- don't remember anything about either.

[MacManMaz]

Those two should be there, I wouldn't mess with them. Although I don't recall seeing a dialogue like that, my guess is that it is the Firefox auto update feature or some other application autoupdate (MSOffice comes to mind) checking for the latest software. I wouldn't worry about it unless it is running in the background often and caused a lot of CPU activity or disk activity.

[LyleH]

You could always install Little Snitch http://versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/17642

It will tell you who's "Calling Home". I believe there is a Demo mode for testing.

LyleH

[Black Landlord]

[quote LyleH]You could always install Little Snitch http://versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/17642

It will tell you who's "Calling Home". I believe there is a Demo mode for testing.

LyleH
Done. Way cool, thank you!

[Black Landlord]

[quote MacManMaz]Those two should be there, I wouldn't mess with them. Although I don't recall seeing a dialogue like that, my guess is that it is the Firefox auto update feature or some other application autoupdate (MSOffice comes to mind) checking for the latest software. I wouldn't worry about it unless it is running in the background often and caused a lot of CPU activity or disk activity.
Thanks!
No office around. I don't use iCal and probably never will. Already flushed iTuneshelper though . . . any idea what it does?