Kurt,

I tried your suggestion but kept getting the "Page cannot display" error in IE.

I ran a scan and there's no malware detected on my system. Also checked my hosts file.

I finally got Tuelz to open a browser (FF) and got this error:
Tuelz
Software Error

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Xi\tuelz\core\webs.py", line 178, in do_GET
AttributeError: SessionServer instance has no attribute 'web_initial_handler'

The address in the browser is http://127.0.0.1:12345/
I tried changing the address to http://127.0.0.1:12345/tuelzbox/ but I got the same error.

No new log file has been started. The previous file has this entry (extract)

Exception in thread Thread-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python23\Lib\threading.py", line 436, in __bootstrap
File "C:\Xi\tuelz\core\applications.py", line 48, in run
File "C:\Xi\tuelz\core\applications.py", line 82, in initialize_modules
File "./newz.mod/newz/__init__.py", line 3, in ?
File "C:\Xi\tuelz\core\handlers.py", line 96, in register
File "C:\Xi\tuelz\core\modules.py", line 75, in __init__
File "./newz.mod/newz/newztuels.py", line 97, in initialize
File "C:\Xi\tuelz\core\databases.py", line 152, in <lambda>
File "C:\Xi\tuelz\core\databases.py", line 51, in make_query
DatabaseError: table newz_files already exists

Both browsers are still refusing to load localhost but that may be a red herring as I have no web server running. Localhost pings correctly.

I've spent all day Googling for possible solutions but have drawn a blank so far. I just can't think of what could have changed in my system to create this apparently out of the blue.

I know it's probably outside the scope of this forum, but maybe someone has a suggestion on where next to look?

I'm desperate, I'll try anything!

Isobel