Wallpaper hijack, virus? Or maybe some important system file deleted?

[Serge]

When I was working on my computer
all of a sudden I had the blue screen of death. After I rebooted the
wallpaper disappeared. I went into Display Properties and saw all
backgrounds were grayed out and the slider didn't move. I tried to install a
wallpaper from a third party software (ThumbPlus) but nothing happened. The
funny thing is when I turn my computer off the wallpaper I tried to install
with ThumbPlus shows up for a second just before the computer is off. I
think maybe I got some kind of virus that hijacked my desktop.
Unfortunately, neither Norton nor Kaspersky turn up any viruses.
Please help if you know what may be going on here.

 

[Guest]

go into safe mode, unistall that program, delete the program files, search
and destroy any .scr files for it too. go into run>msconfig and remove any
entries that are related to that screensaver and or manufacturer...

 

[Serge]

Thanks, man. Actually, all I had to do is run Ad-Aware and wack the SpySerif
virus. After that I had to delete a couple of entries in the Registry
related to the wallpaper.