I am setting up a virtual installation of XP pro on MS's Virtual PC to evaluate eAcceleration products. I have everything loaded and I am ready to install eAcceleration products, but before I do so, I would have a question...

How accurate are restore points? Can malware infect a previous restore point, or are they write protected? Would I be ok to create a restore point, load and test malware, and go back to the restore point to start all over?

I doubt eAcceleration touches restore points, but I think this would be good to know for the future so I don't need to reformat the OS each time I evaluate something.

Thanks!


edit: seems system restore doesn't work the way I thought it did. hmmm.