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A clean computer hard drive can be placed on the shelf as a back up. The infected hard drive can be wiped clean with a reformat. The computer can be started with the hard drive on the shelf and the old hard drive (infected but reformated) can be used to make a new copy for the shelf (a third hard drive can also be used just in case the reformat does not completely clean the back up).
The computer can then be hooked back up to the network.
If there is no 'back-up' on the shelf, then, a blank hard drive must have the operating system loaded from scratch.
The cost of down time for all the computers suffering from a 'virus' includes all the data lost (not backed up) and this 'cost' can be financial data.
Example:
Did you pay your bill on time?
How much money is in your savings account?
The term 'wipe clean' can be meaningless or meaningful. Exactly