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Internet Explorer randomly changing Proxy Settings on Domain

Asked by Edmondadm in Internet Explorer Web Browser

Tags: Microsoft, Internet Explorer, 6 and 7, Domain Group Policy and User rights only

This one is a doozy.  
Short and Simple:  Internet Explorer for some unknown reason is changing proxy settings for users in our organization to an old Proxy server IP that no longer exists.

Background:  We had an old proxy server on a novell network back in the day, and most of these PC's that randomly change to 50.210 were connected at one time to that network.  We now in the past few days have had some crop up that were never on novell or ever pointed to the old proxy server.  

Current:  Group Policy is set to point all PCs to the current proxy server.  We mostly notice when we login to a PC as an administrator account which changes the proxy server to the old one, and then we have to change it back so for a period of time we believed it to be a profile issue, from what we can tell it is not.  We have tried replacing every entry of the old proxy in the registry, only to have the same PC the next day experience the same problem.  There is nothing in common between which PCs in the city are doing this, other than group policy and domain connectivity.  

We are not currently running a wpad server through DNS or DHCB for the automatically check settings, so it's not pulling from that.  Where are other places we can start looking?  We know what we're looking for, we just don't know really where else to look for this issue and learn a little bit more how internet explorer proxy settings work.  

If anyone has any advice or ran into similar issues in the past, I'm all ears!
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