Okay so there is a security check when downloading gadgets, but as nobody ever botheres to get their approved~what's the point !
Please Microsoft, you have this great oS (Vista) that *has* security, gone to the trouble of developing a sidebar for gadgets and community for it and all because you wnt people to post you don't enforce the security certificates. I think that is wrong, there's quite a bit of dross in the gallery (no offence) and I am sure it would benefit everybody if the majority were certificatted.
...otherwise people will just revert back to pre-Vista thinking and just assume things are safe, not caring about security checks. What with RSS being the new medium for viruses and gadgets.......
Security overlooked when downloading
clint 2
I didn't know there was a cost involved, I thought it meant jumping through a few more hoops... Well maybe you should look at that then, it might sound quaint of me to say so but you can expect users to pay at company rates. There's an opensource argument here I don't want to start at all, everybody knows the differences.
I just feel there should be a third way.
jturpin
If you think Gadgets are unsafe, simply don't use them.
At the end of the day a Gadget does nothing a web page can't already do. So you're exposing yourself to the same risk just by browsing the Internet. In fact you're at more risk using IE to browse, as Sidebar at least runs in protected mode - IE doesn't by default. Sidebar will be killed in the event of a Buffer Overrun, IE won't. Hence all the viruses that affect IE.