[NeilH]

Well, from my experience, reformatting is not the answer unless your whole hard drive is about to go. No virus or trojan in any amount does not need a format to remove them.

You can use a decent a/v (i recommend Nod32 and Kaspersky). There are other methods out their for removing viruses etc without reformatting.

Killing rootkits is easy. These little buggers often hide in folders that have been attributed to +s +h. You just need a little help from the good people on here to get rid of the programs. All rootkits and viruses either use an original batch file to install them and start them up. They can be removed from the system with the use of start/run/msconfig and then look at your services for programs that you dont know and remove the tick. They can also be started from several parts of the registry on boot (ie run)

Other tricks include using programs like Icesword (Probably a little out of some peoples technical knowledge)

As i say.. No virus and i mean NO virus cannot be found and removed using the correct methods, so my advice is do not reinstall or format unless you have no other avenue to travel down.

Neil