More on Win10’s Ransomware protection

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LANGALIST More on Win10’s Ransomware protection By Fred Langa Many subscribers tried enabling this optional security enhancement, only to discover it
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E Pericoloso Sporgersi, abbodi86, rexr

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Okay.

I now have the best of both worlds, I think.

First I disabled Avast (Free edition) without uninstalling it. That is, all its shields are disabled, and its passive mode too. But I can still have Avast run a scan on demand from File Explorer’s context menu.

In Malwarebytes I left Web Protection ON, but switched OFF the other three protections. It also scans on demand (takes longer than Avast).

Finally I managed to activate Ransomware Protection. The rest of Windows Security was automatically re-instated.

We’ll see what the future brings …

 

1 Desktop Win 11
1 Laptop Win 10
Both tweaked to look, behave and feel like Windows 95
(except for the marine blue desktop, rgb(0, 3, 98)

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In Malwarebytes Premium, all you need to do is make sure the setting to “Integrate with the Windows Security Center” is in the Off position. As long as this feature is not enabled, Windows Defender and Ransomware Protection should be able to work normally. Malwarebytes might need to be removed and reinstalled to correct this issue.

-- rc primak

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Will Fastie

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In my copy of MB Premium, the setting I see is called “Always Register Malwarebytes in the Windows Security Center.” Is that what you mean?

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[rc primak]

Exactly, Will!

(I’m lousy at remembering exact names of stuff I don’t use myself.)

-- rc primak

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Bottom line seems to be that you can’t enable Microsoft’s ransomware protection unless you are running Defender.  I may wish to use a different AV product, so isn’t that some kind of restriction on trade?

Windows 10 Pro 64 bit 20H2

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rc primak

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[rc primak]

 isn’t that some kind of restriction on trade?

Not really. You can get the same restrictions on critical or selected folder access using the antiransomware features of the premium versions of many third-party AV/AM products. Nearly everyone of these uses the same techniques. The exact codes are a bit different, but the effect is the same. So you pay your money and you take your choice.

-- rc primak

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