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My intentions for this thread seem to have gone askew in part because of the scenario I chose as an example but more so because I was to vague. Let me pose another similar scenario.

A machine...

I don't think the sysadms here would have an infected machine sending email worms outside their network at least not for an extended period of time. ;D

I think doing this individually and manually...

I was thinking more along the lines of using this against a machine outside your network. For instance if your users were getting spammed with email virus from an infected machine outside of your...

dalek,

The above information taken from F-Secure was their analysis of the worm. F-Secure was not remotely removing the virus. I've edited the post adding a link to the page I quoted.

The highly succesfull bagle worm was capable of being removed remotely.

From f-secure http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/bagle.shtml

"Remote Removal
F-Secure can confirm that the remote removal...