The likely cause of this problem are ANSI Escape Codes. These allow scripts to change the foreground and background color of the terminal. You can even mimic the colors of the screenshot above by running the following command:

echo -e 'E[32;46m'

To reset the terminal colors, use the following command:

tput init

According to the manpage:

    init  If the terminfo database is present and an entry for the user's

          terminal exists (see -Ttype, above), the following will occur:



          (1) if present, the terminal's initialization strings will be

              output as detailed in the terminfo(5) section on Tabs and

              Initialization,



          (2) any delays (e.g., newline) specified in the entry will be

              set in the tty driver,



          (3) tabs expansion will be turned on or off according to the

              specification in the entry, and



          (4) if tabs are not  expanded, standard  tabs  will  be  set

              (every 8 spaces).



          If an entry does not contain the information needed for any of

          the four above activities, that activity will silently be

          skipped.

This should restore your terminal to its original colors.