Microsoft unveiled today their plans to include anti-malware protection on their IE8 browser.
This should sound like good news but when you give it a little bit more thought, things are not as pleasing. Let’s begin with that the appearance of such a vast array of malware is probably Micorosft’s fault since they have always developed software with incredible security holes and then take enormous amount of time to create patches to fix them.
But as you keep reading this article courtesy of Cnet, you realize that all they are doing is adding more warnings when you try to do stuff. This means that I will have to click twice, three times or even more just to get the computer to download something or to perform an action I want it to do just as they have been doing with Vista.
Seriously Microsoft, coming up with a Security measure that mainly focus on the user clicking on a yes button is pretty lame. You should see my Dad around those boxes: he just clicks away without reading or understanding what he’s reading. Amazing security feature.