Last Thursday I was logged into my gmail account when suddenly everything slowed down and certain functions like “compose” didn’t work anymore.

I clear out my folder “temporary internet files” once or twice a day. When gmail wasn’t working properly I logged in and out and switched to the folder “temporary internet files”.

I saw that a CONTACT ADDRESS which I didn’t use for about 3 years was part of the text of a cookie. I cleared the folder but when I logged in again there was the same cookie.

Same happened with about 20 other contacts, most of them I didn’t use for years!

I then cleared my contact list.

Then it was getting even scarier: Parts of old message and data were part of new created cookies.

There are other cookies which show symbols like ?????????, %%%% or squares.

The most extreme which happened then was: I did screenshots of the suspicious cookies to have some sort of documentation. I storaged these screenshots in a completely different folder. Suddenly there was in the folder temporary internet files a new jpg cookie of which the text started with ?? and then continued with the folder path! Some other cookies contain information of the registry.

All this just happens when I’m logged into my gmail account.

I’m completely lost cause I’m no technician at all. I don’t know what to do.

I tried to call up Google Germany but there’s just an answering machine which says “no support”.