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No, I think it has more to do with the way that executables on Windows are 'tagged' as having been downloaded from the internet. When a user opens one of them (
by marshray 11y ago
No, I think it has more to do with the way that executables on Windows are 'tagged' as having been downloaded from the internet. When a user opens one of them (such as an installer) they get a prompt if they want to run this code from the internet. Generally, this is considered a good thing.
Browsers, in a stroke of unassailable logic, have decided that the existence of this new security feature should mean they should now start silently downloading executables from websites. After all, what good does it do to have two pop-up warnings that users simply click through?
This is just my impression, I could be wrong about all this.
- dgoldstein0 11y agoThis is an interesting point because there's no corresponding warning when loading a DLL from the internet zone. hm.
- golergka 11y ago> they get a prompt Yeah. About prompts and real users. In my experience, once user clicks on a given prompt 5 times, after that he's completely trained to close it automatically without giving a slightest regard to it.
- diabeetusman 11y agoIn this case, the user clicking through the prompt isn't the issue. They wanted to run the non-malicious installer and so they did. If they read and re-read the prompt, they would still make the same decision