Enable Controlled Folder Access & Whitelist Apps to Protect Against Ransomware (Win10/11)
Difficulty: Intermediate | Time Required: 15 minutes
Introduction
Ransomware encrypts or locks your files and demands payment to restore them. Controlled Folder Access (CFA) is a built‑in Windows Defender...
add protected folder
block history
controlled folder access
enterprise cfa management
get-mppreference
group policy cfa
microsoft defender
powershell
protectedfolders
ransomware protection
real-time protection
set-mppreference
whitelist apps
windows 10 cfa
windows 11 cfa
windows security
I thought protection history and offline scan would have improved since ten . I find protected folders hard to use. I don't understand either.
I also cannot fine offline scan in event viewer. I asked a friend who is very good at these issues and he said neither do I so I do not use them.
Am I...
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I understood the way this was set up in the Fall creator update but am having trouble understanding what to do with the spring 1903 feature. I can leave it enabled and just allow those files I think are OK but I don't know what to do regarding settings. Do I keep them as low? I did not...
I did not have much luck with a VM so am trying to place a Linux distribution in a pen drive using the installers like USB.
I kep hgetting popups from protected folders but more importantly I get sdiffrent error messages while the process is under way which say this won't be able to boot etc...