I, like, ardiva have never had update issues (knock knock) unless my system was infected. never use sysrestore though i have lost tons of data pics music from my habits. I use Mc cost-to-dern-much-ee and ad-ware 6.0 plus a couple of other protective progs but all I can say is one step at a time seems to work best (but it takes for freaking ever loading everything back on)