Hey everyone. I was wondering what screengenie.scr was. I suspect it's either spyware (ad-aware/spybot cannot pick it up, FYI) or a malicious file (AVG cannot pick it up). I know it's a screensaver file, but when I try to use it, it doesn't work. It's a 3 MB file. Can someone please tell me what this is? Thanks.

Do you know where you got it from? You could do an online scan at http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ Here's some more free scans you can do, copied and pasted from wawadave's post in another thread. free trojan scan http://www.trojanscan.com/trojanscan/scanner.htm panda scan http://www.pandasoftware.es/activescan/ rav av http://www.ravantivirus.com/scan/ avast cleaning tool http://www.avast.com/i_idt_171.html mcafee avert stinger http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/ test my shields grc https://nanoprobe.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 It might just be a corrupted screensaver. But its good to check it out.

lol suzi thought they looked familure! just do the scans and see what they find

I've got it too and was curious just as you. It appears to be a benign file, actually a screen saver module by MediaForge (as file properties namely say: MediaForge/XML Runtime Player). MediaForge is a multimedia authoring tool. Maybe it was installed with an application. At least, the behaviour of this module is described on this page: http://www.xmlauthor.com/collector.htm If you find more, please tell me. I will just destroy, since I don't need it. Guillaume