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Originally posted by blessedguy
Malware affects everyone 
Even the most trustable friend can be infected and you'll never know.
Each warning should serve as a second chance to check the url and see if it's safe, it's better than be sorry after you click something you didn't check before or misclicked it, as in a conversation appearing suddenly and the link appearing right under where you'd click.
Now, "suffer this, including those who are able to protect themselves": these people are the ones that liked the feature, it seems. You aren't able to protect yourself if you call an extra security layer a "pain" and "something uneeded". And who reads those warnings that pop up there in time to prevent something?
Those who don't read the warnings that pop up there, probably won't read the smartscreen warning either. It just triggers a mechanical click on the "continue" button. That's probably the same problem with Vista and Seven's UAC: it gets so annoying that most people end up disabling it.
Now a good solution to avoid your misclick example would be to set a delay of, say, 2 seconds before a link become clickable. This method is already used in some dialog boxes.
But I'm surprised to read that some people appreciate this feature. I assume that contrary to what I've written before, it's not that ridiculous. But I still think it's badly implemented.
EDIT: oh, and still another criticism... The smartscreen filter messes up with some websites like 4chan which checks the referrer to avoid hotlinking...
