Windows 10 will hide your important files from ransomware soon
Found on The Verge on Thursday, 29 June 2017
Windows 10 testers can now access a preview of the changes that include a new controlled folder access feature. It’s designed to only allow specific apps to access and read / write to a folder. If enabled, the default list prevents apps from accessing the desktop, pictures, movies, and documents folders.
The new controlled folder feature is designed to protect against viruses and ransomware from locking machines out of certain folders.
Instead of trying to protect the files and leaving it up to the user to define all that, Microsoft could try to stop random binaries from being executed in the first place.