ransomware protection

[Holden. S]

I just installed the windows ransomware protection on my pc and it put extra files with some the names of the games that I have installed on my pc it that normal 

[RockSolid1106]

You can't install Windows Ransomware Protection, that comes bundled with the preinstalled Windows Defender AFAIK. You might have installed a ransomware.

So if I understand this correctly.. no, this is not okay. It's likely a ransomware encrypting your files.

 

If the ransomware has already encrypted your files, there aren't much options you have at this point really.

[Middcore]

Yeah, "Windows Ransomware Protection" is not a thing you "install" I don't think. Please clarify your post because right now this sounds rather ominous. 

[HanZie82]

27 minutes ago, Holden. S said:

I just installed the windows ransomware protection on my pc and it put extra files with some the names of the games that I have installed on my pc it that normal 

And that is how you get actual viruses unfortunately.

As said before thats not how it works.
Windows Defender will automatigly have ransomware protection UNLESS you turn it off.

And if you dont think thats enough protection, maybe stop putting dangerous software on your computer. (That would be step1 in keeping a computer clean)

(Step2 would be doing a course on computer management)

[Holden. S]

16 minutes ago, RockSolid1106 said:

You can't install Windows Ransomware Protection, that comes bundled with the preinstalled Windows Defender AFAIK. You might have installed a ransomware.

So if I understand this correctly.. no, this is not okay. It's likely a ransomware encrypting your files.

 

If the ransomware has already encrypted your files, there aren't much options you have at this point really.

Ok how do I delete it

[Middcore]

30 minutes ago, Holden. S said:

Ok how do I delete it

We don't know what you installed.

[mmk]

Does it show up in your Add/Remove programs?  You can try remove it from there then run some programs like Malwarebytes to see if it can clean those files up.

[Poinkachu]

56 minutes ago, Holden. S said:

Ok how do I delete it

If it is a well made malicious program, most likely not gonna solve anything.
IMO, The safest option if it is a malicious program is to do a clean reinstall at the very least & hope it doesn't leave kids on other drives/partitions as well.

[Holden. S]

Hello is this normal after I activated the ransom ware protection under the window defender varies scanner it did this. Is this nor

[Yoinkerman]

2 hours ago, Poinkachu said:

If it is a well made malicious program, most likely not gonna solve anything.
IMO, The safest option if it is a malicious program is to do a clean reinstall at the very least & hope it doesn't leave kids on other drives/partitions as well.

Yo nice profile pic

[Holden. S]

2 minutes ago, Yoinkerman said:

Yo nice profile pic

It’s from the window security ransom protection

[Kilrah]

37 minutes ago, Holden. S said:

Hello is this normal after I activated the ransom ware protection under the window defender varies scanner it did this. Is this nor

We don't know what you're showing, all we see is a normal Windows desktop. 

[Holden. S]

9 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

We don't know what you're showing, all we see is a normal Windows desktop. 

All my programs have next to them and files with the name of games I have already 

[Kilrah]

You've enabled onedrive and syncing of your desktop to the cloud, the icons show the sync status. 

[Holden. S]

17 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

You've enabled onedrive and syncing of your desktop to the cloud, the icons show the sync status. 

Is that good or bad 

[Middcore]

18 minutes ago, Holden. S said:

Is that good or bad 

Well, if you don't know what it means or how you did it, it's pointless.