Hi m00nbl00d,
You have some point there, when a computer has been compromised for some extended time and to quite an extent, it can no longer be trusted as one does not know what the “malcreants” have done further to it. In this sense I agree. I know that essexboy knows in what cases a computer could be cleansed or in what cases a so-called “total recall” is to be preferred. In case of a file infector, I know the answer, with bots that are morphed all the time to go under the detection radar the answer to these questions also is not that easy. So if the user has enough back-ups or an image of their system that is known to be clean, the solution need not be that drastic, in other cases loosing a computer to cybercrime is a mournful experience,
polonus