Hi Tech. Could you have used CTM to go back to a point where you were not infected, rather than a tedious reformat?.I say this because you seem by your posts, to have been a user for some time.Oh, by the way before i got CTM i was also infected with sality and tried every possible way to remove it that i could think of and yes i reformatted eventually. Wish Killswitch was around then!.This was on a machine with Avast as the Av and Threatfire covering behaviour.
Neither are installed now, Cis and all its bells and whistles on both machines, should have known better and had Cis on both from the start.
Regards
Dave1234