Corrupt file on The Exchange

In June 2010 several Sims players noticed that a .package file was attaching itself to other packages in The Sims 3. The file was a corrupt girl doll, incorrectly cloned from the teddybear. Simmers became 'infected' by downloading lots, houses or Sims with the hidden doll attached, similar to the way many computer viruses spread, and the doll was determined to cause longer loading times and even game crashes.

Many Sims community sites began reporting the issue and a Simmer named 'glitzyangel' posted a guide on how to get rid of it. After a while EA responded with a sticky on their forum, informing the community about the issue.

Steps that should be done to remove the doll from the game?

1. make backup of your game just in case if something will go wrong. For most of the people this doll is removed successfully without problems.

2. check if this doll is not in your houses as a toy or it's not in your kids inventory

3. go to install content in your launcher (not downloads) and look for the doll and uninstall it

4. check in DCBackups (my documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/DCBackup) for this file 0x038a68fe04da61a6aa65f939d77fbc37.package and delete it too.

5. check also your downloads because there was the place from where the doll was installed to the game (if it was originally downloaded from TSR or from the exchange with some file) use Custard tool to check your sims3packs. (You can download it from modthesims - more info in link to my blog in the end of this post)

6. also go to your Export folder (my documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Exports) if you sent something recently to exchange. Because this doll is attaching to the files. It will be in your uploads too. Remove files or clean it with Custard tool. (untick the doll)

7. check all your creations that's are in your studio on exchange or on other pages that you sent something too. If they have the doll remove it

http://glitzyangel-sim.blogspot.com/2010/06/creepy-doll-who-or-what-are-you.html

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