[DanBC]

> TL;DR: "Clean install from a standard image" sounds like great advice on paper but it's not practicable for normal users.

Ignoring sailfish for the moment: mom and dad types take their infected machines to other people.

Those people should know enough to know that malware removal is a con and that the quickest, most effective, way of cleaning the machine is a clean install of the OS.

This has been true for a very long time. It's weird to see malware tools recommended so often on HN.