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Message: <blockquote data-quote="imhotep" data-source="post: 24513532" data-attributes="member: 562115">You are more or less correct.  But if you are trying to protect your external HDD  with your backups or important files from ransomware, you can take some precautions.It's not guaranteed 100% because some ransomware are smart enough to defeat a few things.Possible things to do.1. Make the drive read only. Some WD drives had this feature via their software utilities- or you can use diskpart2. stop access to the important files or backups in the drive using discretionary access control. This effectively stops ransomware from accessing these data.3. Used the Controlled Folder Access Feature (Win10) - allows to specify which programs are allowed to access these folders.But note that nothing is perfect. If the data is really important make another backup and store it off-line, then at least you have a fall back.</blockquote>

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