Ransomware shield and Security health

It watches your protected folders and hidden decoy files for what ransomware does: mass renames to a new extension, files turned into random data, ransom notes. When the evidence adds up, it pauses the program, locks MoLock and alerts you with Kill and Allow; with the guard service it also keeps rolling snapshots so you can restore what changed. It is free on every plan — the details are on the ransomware shield page.

No. Backup and sync apps, built-in archivers, developer tools and photo apps are recognised by their publisher or install location and are never paused. If the shield pauses a tool you trust, choose Allow: it resumes at once and joins your allowed programs — by its publisher's signature, or by that exact file's fingerprint when it is unsigned.

The program stays paused and MoLock stays locked until you decide. “Ransomware stopped” reaches the channels you chose, and you can Kill or Allow from the dashboard, your bot or a push notification — or on the PC once you unlock. If you prefer, have it ended automatically after 10 minutes without an answer.

Detection and pausing work without it, but the guard service is what makes snapshots, knows exactly which program touched which file from Windows' own records, and can pause programs running as administrator. MoLock's standard setup installs it; if it is missing, Security health tells you and shows how to fix it.

No. Snapshots live on the same disk, so a failed or lost drive takes them along. They are ideal for bringing back the few files that may change before the pause, but keep an offline backup too — for example on an external drive you unplug afterwards. And the shield is not an antivirus, so keep Windows Security on.

It combines seven weighted areas — PC health 25, Ransomware shield 25, Privacy 15, Passwords 15, Network safety 10, Updates 5 and Vault 5 — into a score from 0 to 100 with a grade from A to E. An area you haven't set up is left out rather than counted as zero, and an item you choose to ignore stops counting. Fix all repairs whatever MoLock can fix by itself.