What happened in your sims 3 game today?

"igazor;13193757" wrote:
@emorrill - Well, that's good news!

This isn't going to be much help I suppose, but the first few times I worked on users' computers with System Restore in place many years ago when it was new, I found cleverly crafted malware that kept coming back hiding in their Restore Points. I have since never allowed it to be in place on any Windows machine in my control. For personal use, other than TS3, I use Macs though.

Not entirely sure I would recommend every Windows user keep it turned off as it can be helpful at times. But I certainly don't trust it. And I would never allow a home system to auto-update if that's what triggered all of this. Don't mind being notified of impending updates (Patch Tuesday just came and went), but I get to decide when to update, not MS or Apple. Again though, every user's patterns are different.

But on any system there is no substitute for regularly made backups. I could stand to lose say a week's worth of gameplay if something went horribly wrong, but all of it? No way. :)