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Anonymous
9 years ago
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Can viruses be redownladed, from Sims 4 games bought on Origin?

I'm just wondering if anyone knows wether it's safe to reownloade game.My last computer had a virus. I never found out what, it actually was, except that it kept making the internet crash. I tried everythingto fix it. including recovery disks, but it still kept happening. I the end I had to get a new computer.

I have sims 4 on disk but I also have some downloaded content, the restaruant, sims get together etc.

I'm just wondering if it's safe, to redownload the extra content I had? I don't want to take the risk, getting the virus beck to a new computer.

Thanks for any help you can give.

 
  • If that would be the case a lot of people would have virusses as the content comes from the Origin servers. 

    As we haven't heard anything, I think it's safe to say you can download them without getting a virus.

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  • If you have a lot of trouble with viruses, I would suggest downloading an virusscanner. Like AVG or Mcafee.

    Content from Origin is safe, content you download from the internet isn't always safe. Make sure you download from websites that are well known.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    9 years ago

    The extra content I have is from Origin, I don't dowload from sites I don't trust. I had Kaspersky the paid for version, but it didn't find what attacked my previous computer.

    I think the virus came from a blog site I used from a dodgy link I thought as safe. (i've now deleted my account there, because I don't trust the site anymore.)

    I just wanted, to be sure, that it's safe to redownlad Sims and that the virus couldn't have attached to my games. I read somewhere that redownloadning games can be risky, because virues can sometime cling to downlooaded content.

     
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    Phantomlover1717
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    9 years ago

    If that would be the case a lot of people would have virusses as the content comes from the Origin servers. 

    As we haven't heard anything, I think it's safe to say you can download them without getting a virus.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    9 years ago

    @Phantomlover1717 is right. I've been playing and downloading EA/Origin games since Early 2000, that's almost 17 years. I have NEVER gotten any kind of virus, malware or anything bad on my computer from EA Games/Origin. I trust them and, have Origin and, all of my games that need online access set to ALLOW (as exceptions to all traffic control rules) in my firewall and anti virus. I've had it that way for years, on several computers, never a problem from anything EA/Origin.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Thank you for the reasurance. I now have my sims back and  it plays better on my new comp.

     

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