Yes, because it is annoying and MS said it was created to be annoying. Didn’t you read this? It was annoying because MS had motivations like getting the software developers to follow MS directives on secure software. MS was trying to annoy users so they would complain to developers. It’s a rather strange way to write secure software.

“No matter what system security you have in place, it cannot protect users from themselves and this study demonstrates it.”

No, it demonstrates that users can be manipulated and it proves nothing. If anything, it proves that an operating system has many vulnerabilities that users cannot protect themselves adequately from internet attacks. Also, that dialog boxes are very annoying and uninformative.

Is this why PC users are switching to Macs? Just make it secure and users will flock to the most secure system. With Vista, it’s an interim improvement.

Microsoft did this with UAC in Vista and everyone complains about how ‘annoying’ it is. No matter what system security you have in place, it cannot protect users from themselves and this study demonstrates it.

Actually, the example proves that software producers (perhaps Microsoft) is doing a poor job of securing their operating system and not providing security dialog boxes that tell the user of the dangers, or adequately stop the security breach without involving the user.

Users deserve better.