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<blockquote data-quote="RejZoR" data-source="post: 827665" data-attributes="member: 57233">It&#039;s been ages since Microsoft introduced &quot;Controlled folder access&quot; as part of ransomware protection. It should at least in theory protect critical folders and data in them from modification (encryption). Sounds all nice and fancy in theory. In reality, this god damn thing still doesn&#039;t work and never has.Not only you can&#039;t remove default protected folders if you&#039;d desire to do so, it&#039;s whitelisting feature is NON EXISTENT. It says it&#039;ll allow whitelisted apps to modify files. Boy, if only that was even remotely close to truth. As soon as I enable this feature everything starts bitching that it&#039;s getting blocked. Paint.NET, Steam, games, you name it. And it has been EXACTLY the same since the launch of this stupid useless dumb feature.avast! offers the same thing as part of paid versions. Except whitelist there actually works and you have absolute and total control over folders, even default ones. So, WTF Microsoft, are you dumb or something? Has anyone ever got this dumb feature to work?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RejZoR, post: 827665, member: 57233"] It's been ages since Microsoft introduced "Controlled folder access" as part of ransomware protection. It should at least in theory protect critical folders and data in them from modification (encryption). Sounds all nice and fancy in theory. In reality, this god damn thing still doesn't work and never has. Not only you can't remove default protected folders if you'd desire to do so, it's whitelisting feature is NON EXISTENT. It says it'll allow whitelisted apps to modify files. Boy, if only that was even remotely close to truth. As soon as I enable this feature everything starts bitching that it's getting blocked. Paint.NET, Steam, games, you name it. And it has been EXACTLY the same since the launch of this stupid useless dumb feature. avast! offers the same thing as part of paid versions. Except whitelist there actually works and you have absolute and total control over folders, even default ones. So, WTF Microsoft, are you dumb or something? Has anyone ever got this dumb feature to work? [/QUOTE]

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