On reinstalling system from recovery image

Just pondering what lenovo's advice is {regarding the ad/malware pre-installed on our new laptops,which by now we've all decontaminated} should a user suffer a catastrophic system failure and need to reinstall the system via recovery partition?I assume in this scenario,one would again reload our superfishy friend and have to start working on removal yet again?Does it seem reasonable to hope lenovo may feel moved to offer all affected/infected customers a clean recovery image?Say via a download link-or better still an image on removeable media?

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John,
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