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Posted on 10/23/2017 5:49:10 AM PDT by dayglored
With the release of Windows 10 Fall Creators Update last week, the "Controlled Folder Access" that Microsoft touted in June is now live for millions of users.
As the name hints, the Controlled Folder Access feature allows users to control who can access certain folders.
The feature works on a "block everything by default" philosophy, which means that on a theoretical level, it would be able to prevent ransomware when it tries to access and encrypt files stored in those folders.
The benefits of using Controlled Folder Access for your home and work computers are tangible for anyone that's fearful of losing crucial files to a ransomware infection.
If you want to give Controlled Folder Access a go, below are the basic steps to enable it on your PC...
[... lots of pics and details at the link...]
(Excerpt) Read more at bleepingcomputer.com ...
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My next ‘puter be a Mac. Not interested in knowing how they work any more......they should just WORK. Did enough programming at my job in metrology which I retired from in 08.
PS. Love my iPhone.
Good stuff. Probably too complicated for the idiots who will click on ransomware.
Press the Start button and type “Windows Defender Security Center.”
Why do I have to type such a long sentence?
How about telling us where to click on an icon.
From what I see in the screenshots the writer could have said:
Click the Start button then Settings then the Windows Defender link then “Open Windows Defender Security Center” button.
Once you know your way around Settings it is easy to find everything.
Remembering a gazillion names of programs is not.
“Allow an app through Controlled folder access.” This option will whitelist the apps that are allowed to access, edit, create or remove files from protected folders.
Good luck with that. How many people know what and where to find the app? Nice of them to include this but Malwarebytes will protect your whole pc and not allow ransomware on it to begin with.
Don't assume they even know which folders have the data they want to protect. They don't. I once drove 60 miles to fix a printer problem for an office with 12 workers. The maid had unplugged it to plug in her vacuum cleaner.
Where I worked, when users had emergencies that any 12 year old could fix, we called it “polishing their screen.” It was a daily occurrence.
You click on the windows defender icon in the task bar, not that difficult .
This update took 45+ minutes to install.
I work in a Helpdesk. I have callers who do not know where the start button or the taskbar are located despite me telling them where to look : )
Of course the kind of people that happy click and get ransomware will happy click and give the ransomware access. The #1 security hole is always the user.
No kidding.
I've had users tell me, "Well naturally I clicked on the link -- I had to find out where it went before I could determine whether it was malware or not."
How many times have you uttered the words, “double click any tab and the ribbon will come back?” Or, “the tab is the thing at the top of your screen that says HOME on it... It’s gray...?”
Or how about, “Don’t type the word enter, press the key labeled enter... Let go of the key.”
Microsoft has the toolbar hidden in Windows 10 folders until you stumble across that slate grey arrow in the upper right by the ? mark. They have the same feature in Outlook. At least there it is not hiding the toolbar initially.
They also hide This PC, Control Panel, User Files, Recycle Bin until you stumble across it in Start button> Settings> Personalization> Themes> Desktop icon settings.
I am glad they do not do interior car design and hide the steering wheel or light switches that ask “are you sure you want the light on?”
Hiding the tools to navigate around is stupid.
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