Windows anti ransomsware.

[JediMonsoon]

Just say this article and thought I’d share as I didn’t know it had this included but off by default.

Windows 10 Has Built-In Anti-Ransomware, Here's How To Turn It On

And it's pretty effective.

www.gamingbible.co.uk

There is mention in there that defender effects game frame rate . Is this correct?

 

[rouchie]

Just say this article and thought I’d share as I didn’t know it had this included but off by default.

Windows 10 Has Built-In Anti-Ransomware, Here's How To Turn It On

And it's pretty effective.

www.gamingbible.co.uk

There is mention in there that defender effects game frame rate . Is this correct?

Thanks for that, Just updated my settings

 

[ubuysa]

I don't know about the game rate (though I doubt that it would affect it unless the game was doing regular writes to protected folders/drives) but Defender's ransomware protection is a very useful addition to a layered security environment. I use it to protect my backup drives for example, and important folders in addition to the default ones that are already there.

There are some downsides. One is that you get no warning message when an application that's not specifically allowed to access these files makes an access attempt. All that happens is that the access is silently denied, often that makes the app fall over - usually with some sort of unintelligible error message. It's easy to add applications to the access list of course, but you do tend to panic that your application is broken somehow before you remember ransomware protection.

The other main downlside is that all authorised applications can access any of the protected drives/folders. You can't (with this tool) specify which applications can access which folders/drives.

As mentioned, this is very useful as part of a wider and layered security environment - you still need some sort of anti-malware engine to try and block the malware before it gets in and you still need a reliable backup regime that will allow you to recover your data after a ransomware attack.

 

[BlessedSquirrel]

I've got windows defender and have had Controlled Folder access enabled on all my devices since it was implemented in Augustish 2017 and have never experienced any slow down with gaming at all.