Originally Posted by Maestroquark
What are you talking about? XP's System Restore is amazing! It did a great job of restoring the Sasser worm to every computer that we forgot to disable it on at school when Sasser broke out.
Real fun cleaning a computer out 3 times until it was drilled into all the other student worker's heads that System Restore must be deactivated.
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Well, this can still be a problem if you choose to use system restore to a state that contained a virus, it just restores the system state blindly and will restore the virus along with it. We had some cool features that would've helped alot with some of these problems, but they all got cut
. Things like showing you system health metrics along with each restore point, or even letting the user demonstrate an app or scenario they were recently having problems with and system restore could determine at what point the functionality of that app had changed and recommend a restore point that would fix it.