Throw a Coat over It: Teacher's Porn Conviction Debate

This is a follow-up to my earlier post. If I may correct Mark Steinmentz, throwing a coat, or any other article of clothing, over a computer will not remove malware. The machine must be erased and the operating system reinstalled, which is beyond the DIY comfort level of most computer users. Also, to the user of the infected machine, pop-ups would appear seemingly at random once the Internet is accessed, and one computer in a network could be infected whilst the others remain clean.

What distresses me about this case is that nobody at an administrative level bothered to educate themselves about any of this, nor did they even check the offending machine, even though a teacher faces prison time over something very unlikely to be her fault.