Go Straight to Content

What I'll Be Ranting About

Good development practices bring us quality code, confident systems, and missed launch windows. When do you refactor and when do you factor in the passing time? As engineers we need to design what is possible and capable. As programmers we need to turn imagination into reality without a physical product. As developers we need to bridge the gab between that engineered vision and the end product.

I also blog more personally over at my tumblr page.

I am available for small contracts, consultations, tutoring, and other development services. My "skills" as a technical writer are also available. If you've got anything you'd like to talk to me about or for me to see, drop me a line.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Windows 7: How To Ignore Reports of Danger

I am running Windows 7 via VirtualBox, and I skipped Vista completely, so some of my comments might also apply to Vista and thus be outdated. Too bad.

You can probably expect a few other short pieces as I find something I like and something I don't.

So, we see Internet Explorer here trying to help you out and tell you the download seems safe. Of course, it also lets you report that the download is, in fact, unsafe! This will no doubt be fed back into their SmartScreen Filter service, and when enough users report something, future users will be warned on downloading whatever bit of malware it might be. What a great way to protect your users.

Now, the only obvious place to report the download is right here, in the download dialog box, which disappears as soon as the download completes and you can open or run it and actually discover anything threatening about it to warn others about.

My Windows 7 review will eventually be the composite of many small pieces. I'll build up a score card along the way, along with a table of links between the series.

The Good: 0
The Bad: 1

at 10:55 PM





4 comments

Labels:

Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)

Blog Archive