Mystery icon appeared in my menu bar. What is it?

September 9, 2016 9:07 AM

Yesterday I opened up my laptop to discover it had crashed. When I rebooted, a new mystery icon was in the menu bar. Looks like a little square speech bubble with another square in the middle.

If I click on it, nothing happens - no dropdown. If I roll over it, the tooltip just says "Connecting ..." I can command-click to get an "Exit" command but it comes back when I reboot. It's not listed in my login items. Any ideas? I'm running Mac 10.9.5 (Mavericks - work won't let me upgrade).

Pics:
http://helenburgess.com/pics/menu1.png
http://helenburgess.com/pics/menu2.png

posted by media_itoku to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

Do you have a VPN?
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 9:26 AM on September 9, 2016

Does the forcequit menu list anything weird?
posted by I-baLL at 9:36 AM on September 9, 2016

Best answer: It looks to me like the icon for PaperCut? Could you possibly have had that installed once?
posted by Mchelly at 9:36 AM on September 9, 2016 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: It's PaperCut! Although why it would suddenly start popping up now is a mystery.
Thanks Mchelly!
posted by media_itoku at 9:50 AM on September 9, 2016