Microsoft Praises Windows 10’s Capabilities of Stopping Virus Infections

After praising Windows 10 for blocking zero-days that weren’t yet patched thanks to built-in mitigation technologies, Microsoft comes back to applaud the operating system for the protection that it offers to users in the case of ransomware attacks.

Tommy Blizard, member of the Windows Defender ATP Research Team, explains in a post on TechNet that Windows 10’s Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) can block ransomware even in those cases when antivirus fail to do it, preventing infections from spreading across networks.

Blizard says Cerber, which is one of the widely-known file encryptors, can be blocked with new technologies that will become available in the upcoming Windows 10 Creators Update, including tools that help detect in-memory malware and kernel-level exploits.

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