re: „Scareware“ on the Raise

Nick FitzGerald — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 06:58:50 GMT

Roger said he is "frightened" in part because this "shows how easy social engineering works".

That's pretty funny coming from an employee of a company that has spent an awful lot of effort trying to collapse the distinction between "local" (arguably reasonably safe and trustworthy) and "remote" (unknowable, at best, in these matters).

Remember one of the big advances touted in Win98 was its "view as webpage" option for the desktop; a showpiece of the integration between local and web content of the new (v4) IE browser?

Roger -- as an employee of a company that has been pushing so hard for so long to make it essentially impossible for a real expert to "tell at a glance" what is local and what is remote, what have _you_ been doing to reverse this usability nightmare for "ordinary users" who you now lament being so easily fooled, at least partly because of the machinations of your employer's developers and products?

re: „Scareware“ on the Raise

Shoaib — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:39:36 GMT

Hi Roger,

I don't think so it's money.

People are just lazy. Perhaps not properly aware of security impact or probably they think installing all this will make their computer slow.

Thanks

Shoaib