Prevent polygon fills from leaking into the background-ArcGIS 8.x

Summary

At certain view scales, the entire view outside the polygon changes colors to match the colors within some of the polygons. This is caused by a polygon shapefile being "dirty".

Procedure

1. Run the Clean Shapefile utility located in the ArcObjects Developer Kit.
   
   

   Code:
   C:\arcgis\arcexe83\ArcObjectsDeveloperKit\Samples\Utilities\CleanShapefile. 

   
   
   

   Note:
   If you don't have the Developer Kit loaded, you can download this utility from ESRI's support site. See Related Information below. 

   
   
2. Select a shapefile for export.
   
3. Type the name for the output shapefile.