List of Safe Custom Content Sites!
So I wanted to do a post about some safe custom content web sites. Since people are always looking for them. If you have a website that is safe and has quality CC then post the link and I'll put in he...
Forum Discussion
"Candyd;c-15732902" wrote:
@Thelovelysimmer328 and @ everyone who worries about TSR :
You can get viruses from The Sims Resource if you don't have a good ad blocker. Whatever TSR tells you, and no matter how much time your downloads take there, never download anything there without an ad blocker. It will block viruses, because viruses are hidden in ads there, and not in TSR's site itself. As long as you always have an ad blocker active, TSR is pretty safe to use. I wouldn't say the same about some sites such as MediaFire and AdFly, which redirect to malware and are always dangerous even with an ad blocker.
In general, it's unsafe to be on Internet without using an ad blocker. It's true for everyone, whatever the OS, and not only Windows users. For example, Mac users have serious issues with malware known as MacKeeper, and which can be involuntarily downloaded through ads shown on sites such as MediaFire. No matter how tempting it is to download some very cute piece of CC, never compromise security on your computer.
I have an ad blocker, and a very good anti-virus program. When I downloaded some hairs a couple of years ago from TSR, I never even saw an ad, much less clicked on one. But I got a virus anyway. It erased the data from the index file for all of my store and custom content on Friday the 13th, which was, thankfully, only two days later. So I didn't lose much when I deleted every file that had been modified since installing the CC from TSR.
My content was all still there, but none of it showed up in my game. So I had to removed my Sims 3 folder, let the game generate a new one, and reinstall everything. I just downloaded more hairs from TSR a few days ago, because I am so tired of the limited selection of decent looking ones. So this time I renamed my Sims 3 folder, copied my backup Sims 3 folder into my Electronic Arts folder, and installed the hairs in that one. Then I made sims using all of the hairs I downloaded and placed them in an empty world. I'm going to cycle through all the households and watch for any kind of glitching, which I also had with those hairs from the other time, and then see what happens on Friday the 13th, which will happen this very month.
And by the way, I checked them all with custard the other time, and it didn't find anything wrong. I tried to check these new ones before installing them, but I forgot how to use it, so I'm going to have to look up the instructions again.
