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William Bowtrain

In article , lid says...

Performing an standard Disk Format and Reinstall of the Operating System
will render common infections incompatible, but not all Rootkits and its
accompanying payload of malware.....Rootkits work from outside the Operating
System and can hide in Bad Sectors of the Hard Disk thus have places to hide
on the Hard Disk that are essentially outside the Operating Systems
environment,
untouchable by it, yet still at hand.....

Most wiping, erasing, formatting, and partitioning tools will not overwrite
logical bad sectors on the Disk, leaving the Rootkits and their accompanying
payload of malware behind and still active.....
Rootkits in themselves are not an threat.....the danger is that Rootkits
have
the invincible power of Stealth.....Malicious Programmers can hide their
malware
safely inside the protection of the Rootkit.....

So-called "rootkits" are just another tool to scare the public into buying the services
of "anti-malware" code writers. "Rootkits" are practically impossible to deliver and
easily defeated by reinstalling a clean OS, or simply a clean image.
Even if hidden on a HD, the malware becomes simple garbage.
It has no way of being executed.
Just scare tactics. But it works.