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<blockquote data-quote="ScandinavianFish" data-source="post: 968976" data-attributes="member: 93786"><p>At default settings it only has Controlled Folder Access, while simple, its extremely effective and will always defend protected folders form modification, though it will block both legitimate and malicious attempts to do so and it may cause alert fatigue, with ConfigureDefender on High, Advanced Ransomware Protection will be enabled, which uses Heuristics and reputation based analysis to constantly monitor files for signs of ransomware, though ive found it to sometimes cause false positives with documents</p><p></p><p>If you use Edge, Smartscreen and Network Protection, the web protection is as good as paid solutions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ScandinavianFish, post: 968976, member: 93786"] At default settings it only has Controlled Folder Access, while simple, its extremely effective and will always defend protected folders form modification, though it will block both legitimate and malicious attempts to do so and it may cause alert fatigue, with ConfigureDefender on High, Advanced Ransomware Protection will be enabled, which uses Heuristics and reputation based analysis to constantly monitor files for signs of ransomware, though ive found it to sometimes cause false positives with documents If you use Edge, Smartscreen and Network Protection, the web protection is as good as paid solutions. [/QUOTE]
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