Something that I found unsettling in my hack was that my notebook, which I formatted as part of my nuke from above clearance kept giving me an error when i tried to connect to my desktop using remote desktop, it kept telling me I had a connection already running. This happened both times I formatted the notebook, then unplugged it and pulled the battery, even the BIOS had it's date reset due to no power, then on the 3 rd format I disconnected my modem so that it would get a new IP and only then was I able to connect to the other desktop remotely after that fresh install. My suspicion is that the original trojan had captured the ip address of my network and so they were able to still connect to my machines remotely using some other hack.
ALL VERY SCARY