Okay, technically it's not a photo but a screen capture. But I need help!!

Saturday, I got attacked by the worst virus I've ever seen. It immediately disabled all my AV. Then my desktop changed before my eyes. It had this huge white box on the left with folder options and all my icons were pushed off the right.

Next, I discovered it had stripped my dial up connection of the phone number. I couldn't redo it because it would only allow me to connect by broadband.

I called my ISP. They told me to bring it in and they would fix it. Hah!

Monday I was in training. Every time I called no one could tell me what was going on. That was because the only time they were doing anything was when I showed up in person. They seemed to want an audience. Which I couldn't provide because I had to get back.

When I got out of training, I went there. They informed me they had run several AV programs and there was no virus. They thought I had been hacked and recommended reinstalling the OS as so many critical files were now missing.

I went home, put in the OS CD, keyed in my product code and restored it. I thought. No, I now had to activate Windows. I keyed in my product code again and was informed it was invalid and to call Windows.

So I did. They gave me a new set of numbers. Windows was activated.

This is what it looks like now. Lovely, isn't it?

I cannot change it. Clicking on Display only allows changes to the screensaver. No options for background.

Btw, when I got home and ran my AV programs I found two seperate viruses.

Any suggestions on how to circumvent the modified display option and get rid of this HUGE ad. Which is probably just another worm or virus or hijacker supplied free of charge by Microsoft.

And also, completely OT, I'm thinking of buying a Panasonic FZ5 for the zoom. Anyone used one?