I knew a guy at one place where I worked who was always tweaking and messing up his system. About every other week, (sometimes every week), he'd mess up and ask for a low level format "Cause that's what I do at the house! There's nothing better!" he'd tell us. We'd say okay and just slam his laptop, but we'd keep it for a day or two to make him think we did that low level format, just like we had promised. ^^

Just what Aboron said; that kind of format is not needed by normal folks unless you're really worried about what's been on your drive AND you're getting rid of it. You been doing any 007 shit that we need to know about?

Everybody has different suggestions and mine is; when I run into a badly infected system, I run every virus/malware remover I can find; Ewido, AVG, Spy-bot, Ad-Aware, CounterSpy, Spy Sweeper, and Trend Micro Scan one after another. Some will catch stuff, but not be able to clean it all out. You'll be surprised by what each finds that the others missed.

And there isn't one (that I've found) that'll detect and clean everything.

Buddy Builder viruses used to give me nightmares. Just about the time you think you've cleared it all out, here it comes back again.