Q&A: Peer networking and ransomware protection

In this week’s first reader-submitted question, a subscriber’s peer (serverless) network simply will not allow his three PCs to share files, despite there being no obvious flaws. Why won’t it work?

In the second, a different subscriber wants to enable Windows’ excellent, built-in ransomware protection (via “Protected folders”) but is prevented from doing so by other elements of his setup. Here’s the fix!

Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.12.0, 2022-03-21).

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Fred Langa

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