steve, I’d like any comment you would offer in response to my #75.....tia.
I don’t have any other than to say that my point in this thread is that Steady State is only one component of a security strategy. Don’t depend on this (free) product to guarantee protection from and recovery from any and all threats. It certainly isn’t marketed that way by Microsoft.
This idea of rolling back to a prior state by utilizing an external journaling feature is fine. Similar things have been available in other operating systems for years. But no professional would rely on this approach alone. This is kind of a last resort — after the threat gets past actual defenses like AV and firewall (which this is not). And if that cache file is trashed or the disk goes, forget it. You’re then left with nothing if you don’t have an external backup.