Adware toolbar infecting ALL WinXP windows, not just IE

Hi
I have just seen a very sick home PC that was left vulnerable to all
sorts of malware/virus/trojan infections from the internet and was
amazed to see adware toolbars even infecting regular WinXP windows
like the Control Panel window. I am of course familair with malware
toolabrs infecting internet browsers but never non-browser system
windows.

Has anyone heard of this before or know the name of any virus/trojan/
malware etc that can infect non-browser system windows like this? Its
been hard searching for one that can on Google.

Thanks

Bull

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