I've used Spybot for years and it's never set up a proxy server, but I'm only on v. 1.6.2.

Do the malware bytes full scan too just to be safe.

Hi there,

I can see you've initiated the faults wizard, but there's still a couple of questions to complete if you'd be able too? We'll then check over your connection to see if anything is amiss.

If you're able to goto http://faults.plus.net and complete the troubleshooting questions we'll takeover from there.

i have done that no and bt said no problems

done a full scan and nothing

I'm fairly happy to say it's just a strange on but not a virus / malware then

Glad it's all going now - better to be safe than sorry

In reply to a post by goatty2:

server was set to localhost.

Not that damaging, unless there actually is a trojan that has set up a proxy on your own machine.

Without a proxy, it probably would have the effect you saw.