Are you sure those connections belong to Tor? netstat -an doesn't show you that info. netstat -ano will show the process IDs, but then you have to find them in the list of running processes, so you might try something like TCPView. Also, have you confirmed that the outbound connections are going to Tor relays? It's puzzling, because the Tor that's included in TBB hasn't changed since December, so it shouldn't have magically stopped working. Maybe Vidalia isn't writing the Tor options to torrc correctly? You could manually add them by shutting down TBB, opening torrc with a text editor adding either, for Socks5 proxy: Socks5Proxy <host>:<port> for HTTP proxy: HTTPProxy <host>:<port> Maybe Vidalia isn't forcing Tor to reload its configuration file, so try simply restarting it first. Also, you're not trying to run Tor over Tor are you? That's bad when connecting to clearnet sites, because your entry and exit node could be the same relay.