Smart Screen to check files in Windows 8 - useful or just another useless feature security dialog?

If you believe the screenshots made from the first leaked to the network builds (and add-on if nothing will change), Microsoft intends to include in Windows 8 checker files created on the basis of the filter Smart Screen, which is already used in Internet Explorer and Windows Live Messenger 2011. Good decision or another is a clumsy attempt to protect the Microsoft end-users, and covered them with endless dialog boxes?



I usually only for all kinds of improvements that could protect end-users, but what about this innovation, I have some doubts - that's why. Microsoft, of course, realizes that he can not build into Windows a complete anti-virus, without causing a disturbance by antitrust authorities around the world. So instead of fighting for the opportunity (and the battle is unlikely to come rough - it's hard to imagine what the state can prohibit a useful measure of safety) - rather than fight, Microsoft Windows infests all kinds of security related technologies. A new feature includes a simple check box, and if there is no way to customize its operation will not be provided, most users would disable it (really the story of the UAC did not teach anything to Microsoft?). But there is another, more important reason seems to me Smart Screen questionable idea. Says the same and Long Zheng, who discovered a new function:



Although the filter [Smart Screen] shows high efficiency in the fight against harmful products of social engineering, it is prone to false alarm and forcing developers to fight for his honest name.

False positives deliver a lot of trouble, but most people tolerate this (and some honestly believe that the threat is real.) Most antivirus software at least notify the user about the intended nature of the detected malware and offers various ways to fix it - in other words, makes it possible to make an informed decision. A Smart Screen, at least in its current version, simply reports on the threat and provides no information about what its nature and how to fight it. And the fact that the filter blocks 99% of the allegedly suspicious programs creates a huge field of false positives and plenty of opportunities to penetrate a computer actually malware...



... And this implies the following problem. What end users need to believe: the filter Smart Screen, which presumably is able to protect them from threats, 99% of cases, or an independent anti-virus product, which shows better results in the fight against viruses and offers more useful information about suspicious objects? I'm not saying that the introduction of Smart Screen in Windows - a bad idea, but acquainted with the specifics of the filter in IE and Live Messenger 2011, I can not give this idea a good one. "Irritating" - that is how I would describe my impressions of this technology. What do you think? In your opinion, Smart Screen - a useful feature for the end user or the next incarnation of the UAC?

Posted by: Wasim Javed