I was shocked, yet pleased, to read this article on Microsoft's TechNet site titled Help: I Got Hacked. Now What Do I Do?. It backs up my assertion, and that of most of my colleagues, that the only way to rebuild a compromised computer is to reformat the drive and start over. It's nice to finally see one of the Big Boys say this publicly.

10 PRINT "On May 1, 1964, two Dartmouth College math professors"
20 PRINT "unleased the BASIC computer language on the world.  In"
30 PRINT "the nearly 22 years since I first learned BASIC I've"
40 PRINT "been exposed to numerous versions: Atari BASIC (Atari),"
50 PRINT "Apple BASIC (Apple), Integer BASIC (Apple), Commodore"
60 PRINT "64 BASIC (Commodore), BASIC (MS-DOS), BASICA (MS-DOS),"
70 PRINT "GW-BASIC (MS-DOS), QuickBasic (MS-DOS), VisualBasic (Win),"
80 PRINT "VBScript (Win), Visual Basic.NET (Win).  While today's"
90 PRINT "versions don't resemble that first version in any way,"
100 PRINT "it's still one of the first languages programmers cut"
110 PRINT "their teeth on.  Read: BASIC Computer Language Turns 40"
120 END