I think that if you have malware, then formatting of hard drive is minimum of what should be done. I would not assume that malware is actually purged, and unpa

I think that if you have malware, then formatting of hard drive is minimum of what should be done. I would not assume that malware is actually purged, and unpacking backup archive and running script to reinstall software is not so troublesome (assuming that you have backups and script to automate installing your programs, but if you are on HN then you probably have it)