Re: Computer users overeager to click popup 'OKs'

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

How can we tell if it's real research or fake research?

On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Juha-Matti Laurio wrote:

> Not breaking news, but this has been confirmed by a research now:
>
> "Web surfers have a standard reaction to error messages that pop up in their Web browsers, according to new research 
> published this week:
> They click "OK" and hope it will disappear.
>
> Psychologists at North Carolina State University found that computer users have a hard time distinguishing between 
> fake Windows warning messages and the real thing.
> In an experiment that tested the responses of 42 Web-browsing university students, they found that almost two-thirds 
> of them
> -- 63 percent -- would click "OK" whenever they saw a popup warning, whether it was fake or not.
>
> "Many people fall for this style of attack by not recognizing the visual elements that separate real and fake warning 
> windows,"
> the researchers concluded in a paper delivered at an academic conference in New York this week.
>
> That's bad news, security experts say, because fake popup messages can take you to some very bad places on the 
> Internet."
> --clip--
>
> More at
> http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/151505/computer_users_overeager_to_click_popup_oks.html
>
> Reference:
> http://news.ncsu.edu/news/2008/09/wmswogalterfakemessage.php
>
> Unfortunately, those fake close buttons are not familiar to average users at all...
>
> Juha-Matti
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