Computer id changed without prompting

Hi,
I'm not sure if I can explain this issue - it was pretty weird, and it happened when I was out of town. My husband told me that there was a pop up message stating that the id on the computer already existed and the new one would be changed to something totally different. In addition, he couldn't connect to our router.
I came home today and verified what he said and did the only thing I could think of. I logged off what I assumed was the second id. When I did that, the computer "reset" the screen and my router connection was restarted. Everything seems okay, but I'm worried that we may have picked up some kind of trojan or malware. It's also possible that my husband hit some particular key stroke by accident to set this off. Has anyone heard of this?
Thanks!

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I've gone through the network options to see if I can identify anything "weird". The only thing I've seen is under the Proxies tab - under bypass proxy settings for these Hosts & Domains: *.local, 169.254/16 - does this mean anything?
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Is it really safe to leave these up and running when you have a WEP?
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WEP is worthless...
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070404-new-attack-cracks-wep-in-record-ti me.html
http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsid=8456
PS - how do you put in the little smiley face?
Just a SPACE then a Colon then a right Parentheses.

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