Fiddler not capturing traffic. Proxy settings keep getting changed
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Solution
- This probably belongs on Superuser rather than StackOverflow.
- You don't need to "search the web" to change your proxy settings, just click the big yellow bar.
- You'll need to find what is changing your proxy settings. My guess is that you're infected with Adware like `BrowserSafeguard` or `GeniusBox`. You can either use `netstat -a -o` to find the process listening on the port in question, or you can use SysInternals' Process Monitor to watch the `Proxy Server` registry key and see who is changing it.
Problem
A few days ago, a yellow banner started to appear in Fiddler reporting that my proxy settings had changed and that if I clicked the yellow banner, I could re-enable Fiddler traffic capture. Upon clicking, the banner and the error message wouldn't go, and Fiddler had stopped capturing all traffic. I searched the Web and found how to change the proxy settings back to 127.0.0.1 and port 8888. However, when I do that, something keeps setting the port number back to 63758. The version of Fiddler I am using is v2.4.9.9 on a Windows 7 Home Premium PC. Please see picture attached. What should I do?