Considering I have multiple hard drives and only the Sys Drive was wiped, isn't it still necessary to clean the whole computer, or any reinstall is going to end up infected again?
Well yes, but what I am saying is, I guess, I had no idea you had multiple drives on the computer. What you said originally was
I wiped my HD clean
meaning to ME ONE hard drive period.
You said other files were
executables that are downloaded from the net or transferred from a disk (like a computer music mag dvd) are being replaced by nasty files that I can't delete and which aren't showing up on any scans.
You never gave me complete information. I had no idea there were
multiple hard drives
until just now. If I had known this I would have had you go about this in a different way because this tells me the infection originates on one of these OTHER hard drives NOT the one we just worked nearly 5 days to clean. We could have cleaned them all at one time in this same time and you would have been done with it. If you keep wiping this drive we just worked on it is going to be infected again, just as fast, it isn't going to keep it clean because the originating infection just doesn't reside on it. It lives someplace else. But the entire system could have been 100% infection free right now if I had been given full information.