[Suicide Junkie]

I try to keep an image of my OS drive so I can format and restore without any hassle, without much time, and without losing my settings.
Very highly reccommended for next time.


What you should do, is back up anything you can't reinstall... all the stuff you made yourself and that isn't posted to the web somewhere. Burn it to nice physical CDs.

If you have trouble getting the virus out, make sure you have your stuff backed up as above.
Then "Format c:" to be sure.

Partition your drive into at least two pieces when you reinstall... one for windows and apps, and the other for your files that you don't want to lose when you need to nuke and rebuild windows the next time.