After 18 years or so of increasingly frequent popup messages appearing in popular software you would think everyone realises by now how useless they are. Normal users don't read popups, and those who do read them don't know or care what they mean, and/or they just choose to ignore them. Actually I think software vendors know exactly how useless they are, and in the case of security-related popups it's just the vendor saying "security is the end user's problem, not ours". Kinda like the warnings you get on cigarette packets.
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After 18 years or so of increasingly frequent popup messages appearing in popular software you would think everyone realises by now how useless they are. Normal users don't read popups, and those who do read them don't know or care what they mean, and/or they just choose to ignore them. Actually I think software vendors know exactly how useless they are, and in the case of security-related popups it's just the vendor saying "security is the end user's problem, not ours". Kinda like the warnings you get on cigarette packets.