***UPDATE***
Because I jumped the gun, its actually Virgin asking you to REMOVE the proxy not add one in. I’m guessing they had a transparent proxy or this was a problem with their system and asking old NTL customers to remove a proxy in the case they had one. Oh well, all is well in Virgin land. ;)

This is a little scary.  The screenshot below is from my friend Grant’s browser after rebooting his router.  All requests to the internet with a Virgin Media account was resulting with Virgin requesting you enter a proxy server to access the net.

I can’t believe that this is a step that Virgin would be considering.  Their “helpful” call center in India kindly had zero idea of what a proxy server was and could only offer that the computer was restarted.

The page should still be available here but below is the screenshot we recieved:

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