Top Tech News : Removing Stubborn Viruses That Plague Your PC

"If you're a technology fan, you probably try out a lot of software, visit a lot of web sites, and have your share of externally-connected drives. And eventually, you'll fall prey to a computer virus or worm that you cannot eradicate. What can you do if that happens to you? Read on for some answers."  ~ Jay Dougherty

http://www.toptechnews.com/story.xhtml?story_id=11100B2HPLS6&page=1

This is actually a good article on what to do, granted it does not give you all the choices but many. Most of us never want to do a reload of our operating system. There is another way but it involves having tools that tech head are usually the only one to have. One being an external hard drive bay, this way you can take the drive out of the infected machine a run the virus scan on another computer. Hopefully this can eradicate the virus for you. Some people do not have this ability and it is a little bit on the higher level tech processes. So if you do not know what item is the hard drive you probably should not open your case.