This really still applies to Windows too, which is why "cleaning" never made a lot of sense to me. I suppose that one could put their trust in the big AV companies, who analyze viruses and note what they mess up/with, but in the end, I have no way of knowing what I just had run rampant on my computer, and so it's far far far safer to just wipe everything.
One might think this could even be written as a nice plug-in style setup for "traffic shaping" on your local linux box. Define 100%, and it figures out how to maximize use w/o triggering the ISP-side throttling.
Like a turkey drawn with a child's hand or a collection of snow globes collected from a life well-lived, these sites were hand-made, done by real people, with no agenda or business plan or knowledge, exactly, of how everything under the webservers worked.
Now, the key part here is "no knowledge . . . of how everything under the webservers worked." They presume that it's someone else's problem when the content is gone, but they:
They expected to receive value despite giving nothing, and then not to have to think at all about what could go wrong if that value were taken away, but instead, that they were entitled to it.
The rule on staying alive as a program manager is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.
