OH, I agree if you are not the type that moves files, deletes a lot of stuff, and has to install and unintall a lot of software, and other stuff that most will not have to do, for the average person, Restore can be a life saver.    But for me, it always failed to restore various items, that always caused major problems.  

I was a programmer at the time, and wrote books, so found it was easier to just shut it off and follow the course I have been using since.  I tried the Vista version of Restore and it worked pretty well.  Old habits die hard.

Later I found that a particular person was sending me pics with viruses.  I would delete them and scan the drive, but did not realize until later that Restore was making a copy and the virus would come back later without my knowledge.  In years past many a friend has asked me to salvage their system, and almost all of the time a virus was in the Restore file.  

Should that occur, and your system keeps getting a cold, then shutdown System Restore and reboot.  Run your virus scanner for a full system scan, at least twice, and if you find nothing then turn System Restore back on, and scan one more time.  This should get rid of the virus, but you will not be able to recover the system since you have lost the previous restore points.   You may have to reinstall the Virus software in Safe Mode to get it to nail the virus.

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