re: Will the internet EVER RE-BOOT?
Not likely at all.
The internet is not analogous to a single PC, especially one with Microsoft OS.
It's a distributed system. Much can be lost and the rest functions independently.
Latest theoretical work has a new scheme of virus protection wherein virus fighting nodes email out anti-virius innoculation software that permeates the net faster than the attacking virus rather than the aperiodic download of virus detection algorithms..