I’m running windows 10 I don’t know if that makes any differences or not and of course Emsisoft which is the best ant-virus protection we’ve ever had.

hello @floydandbeckywright:disqus

So you were very lucky, sadly for most victims, ransomware don’t disappear this way, most of them doesn’t freeze the computer and they survives a reboot. Maybe there is something on your computer setup that make them freeze :)

Just use sanboxie.

You are welcome :)

Because Emsisoft does protect against ransomware already, Controlled Folder is a default-deny mechanism that must be set by the users; it needs Windows Defender active but is not managed by it, so it is more complicated to use for our average users.

To use an analogy:

– Emsisoft would be a security guard in the surveillance room of a bank (the system), he can pinpoint criminals (malware) in the crowd because of is experience on suspicious behaviors (behavior blocker) and his list of known criminals (Antivirus scanner).
– Controlled Folder is more like the biometric reader of the vault (the folder you protect), what isn’t authorized is forbidden to enter (the user need to authorize manually a program to access the protected folder).

So those mechanism are complementary, but taken each one alone, Emsisoft is better and simpler.
Controlled Folder is more a raw feature (and i believe it needs some more works) where Emsisoft is more versatile.

Note: i don’t want to go here into technical details like code injection into legitimate processes which may bypass the Controlled Folder protection. If you wander into some security forums, there is plenty of discussion about it.

Your reply is not consistent to what is written in the article above: “When used in conjunction with proven anti-ransomware software such as Emsisoft Anti-Malware, Controlled Folder Access promises to be a great supplementary security tool.” If it is indeed a great supplementary security tool then why not implement the same functionality in Emsisoft and so avoid any potential confict with Defender?

Grateful for the answer, I will tell friends who use Emsisoft of this freedom to use both Windows Defender and Emsisoft without losing the Emsisoft features as well. Thank you very much for your attention.

“Let’s say I want to use this feature from Microsoft and also want to use Emsisoft as my antivirus after all, would that be possible? As?? And why in the Security panel of the Flag only shows Windows Defender Active? Would I be just activating Windows Defender and leaving Emsisoft disabled? So why buy and use Emsisoft?”

Yes you can use both, you won’t lose Emsisoft protection, you will have both of them active (as mentioned in our article ), you will just not see Emsisoft in the security center :)

hello @GutosoES:disqus,

Yes, it is expected, only Windows Defender will appears because by ticking the option you are unregistering Emsisoft from the Security Center. So Emsisoft “disappears” from it but in reality it is still active and functioning as it should. So don’t worry, we still protect you ;)

But if i enable my Emsisoft go be desactive?!! Or i can have 2 protect me?!! Windows Defender and Emsisoft?
It is not very clear this after all in the flag only shows the Windows defend me protecting and nothing of Emsisoft tb? !! So what would be the advantage of having a protected folder if the Antivirus that I consider special that is the Emsisoft I bought will be disabled too? !! Or would not that be? Be clearer please this confuses a lot and I’m afraid to leave the Windows folder Enabled and not have the protection of Emsisoft together

You Say: – If you are on Win10 FCU and have Emsisoft (or any other 3rd paty antiviruses) installed and running, you won’t have access to this feature because it needs Windows Defender active, and installing a 3rd party antivirus will deactivate it by principle.
However, we offer (via a setting) in Emsisoft the possibility to use this Controlled Folder feature by letting Windows Defender active while using Emsisoft. (Note that we don’t recommend using 2 antiviruses at same time).

So that means that by clicking the button that you put at the disposal of Emsisoft users I will only have Windows Defender as Antivirus and then it would be good to have your software? !! Is not it very clear, could this explain us better? Let’s say I want to use this feature from Microsoft and also want to use Emsisoft as my antivirus after all, would that be possible? As?? And why in the Security panel of the Flag only shows Windows Defender Active? Would I be just activating Windows Defender and leaving Emsisoft disabled? So why buy and use Emsisoft?