This is super old @Hilbert Hagedoorn its been in the OS since 2017

It can also interfere with some games. Divinity Original Sin 2 was crashing with it on.

Hilbert this feature is very old.

If you search for this feature on the internet, you'll find that it has been around for quite a while. I've been using it for months. Why is using Controlled Folder Access as protection against ransomware suddenly news?

Fierce Guppy:

If you search for this feature on the internet, you'll find that it has been around for quite a while. I've been using it for months. Why is using Controlled Folder Access as protection against ransomware suddenly news?

I am guessing here that a news outlet just discovered this Windows 10 feature or presented it as a tip and then other news outlets just report it as news instead of like a tech tip. If you look at the author of Tom's Hardware article on this, he states that he didn't know about this feature and he found out about it from a Forbes article. Technically it is not news since news, and I quote dictionary.com, is "a report of recent events'. It certainly isn't recent but if someone didn't know about it, it's new for them. Microsoft Experimenting with Controlled Folders in Windows 10 against ransomware (guru3d.com)

Fierce Guppy:

If you search for this feature on the internet, you'll find that it has been around for quite a while. I've been using it for months. Why is using Controlled Folder Access as protection against ransomware suddenly news?

Shh... bro don't spit out such statements or your might be flagged as crazy... You know something is wrong when you see 3 microsoft unintersting/unimportant news stacked per page + and win 10 coupon AD. Oh well ... Edit on post: A malware antivirus to protect a malware OS from being infected with other ransomware. The irony in this one is over 9K.