Windows Defender, the built-in real-time antivirus in Windows 10, has a critical security feature that’s disabled by default: Ransomware Protection. Strangely though, the feature was added in a Windows 10 version 1709 update in October 2017, which comes as a surprise for many users who may not have known about it until now. What’s worse is that ransomware is a serious threat that has implications as it silently encrypts your data and locks down your PC, eventually blocking access to your data unless you pay the attacker. There’s no guarantee, though, that once you pay, the attacker will decrypt your files and restore access to you…. Read more