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<blockquote data-quote="plat" data-source="post: 867770" data-attributes="member: 74969">I think this is getting a little complicated and over-thought, speaking from a basic user&#039;s perspective.&nbsp; Has anyone examined how another security software alerts a user to a potential threat?&nbsp; It&#039;s not all these messages to contemplate and mull over plus various mechanisms to choose from.&nbsp; It&#039;s usually just one, plus a menu of what to do next. Look at HitmanPro. Alert:&nbsp; it&#039;s a banner blocking your entire desktop plus a Windows chime.&nbsp; That&#039;s about the ultimate in warnings!I think if Defender is set to give an audible warning, you will get that plus a text warning.&nbsp; This combo would be very difficult to ignore but hard to say whether a given user will proceed regardless.&nbsp; You want to close that hole a little more that a user will proceed regardless of warnings. At some point, the software has to back away and say &quot;OK, you&#039;ve been warned.&quot;&nbsp; This is often a very quick dynamic; people maybe want whatever that is now, not after having leisurely thought about it.&nbsp; This is often my mindset.Like this would be good if a user somehow ended up on a bogus shopping site or as Andy Ful mentioned, prepared to open an email with a malicious attachment socially engineered to be relevant.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="plat, post: 867770, member: 74969"] I think this is getting a little complicated and over-thought, speaking from a basic user's perspective. Has anyone examined how another security software alerts a user to a potential threat? It's not all these messages to contemplate and mull over plus various mechanisms to choose from. It's usually just one, plus a menu of what to do next. Look at HitmanPro. Alert: it's a banner blocking your entire desktop plus a Windows chime. That's about the ultimate in warnings! I think if Defender is set to give an audible warning, you will get that plus a text warning. This combo would be very difficult to ignore but hard to say whether a given user will proceed regardless. You want to close that hole a little more that a user will proceed regardless of warnings. At some point, the software has to back away and say "OK, you've been warned." This is often a very quick dynamic; people maybe want whatever that is now, not after having leisurely thought about it. This is often my mindset. Like this would be good if a user somehow ended up on a bogus shopping site or as Andy Ful mentioned, prepared to open an email with a malicious attachment socially engineered to be relevant. [/QUOTE]

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