What exactly is the OK button for here?
OK is used in
assenting or agreeing but what am I assenting or agreeing to here?
It seems just to be an existentialist statement: 'A virus was found on your computer' 'OK, Cest la vie.'
I can think of two possible functions:
1. To accept the recommended action to take in dealing with the virus: move/rename, delete, repair, move to chest.
2. To ignore the virus warning in the event of a known false positive.
I must admit I've been thinking about that button for a long time.
During a Ad-Aware scan the other day, avast! popped up a warning about Redlof in Trend Micro Sysclean (a known false positive) and I decided to try out the 'OK' button.
The warning disappeared but the Sysclean file remained. So it is a sort of 'ignore the warning' button. I tried opening the folder containing Sysclean. avast! popped up the same warning. I clicked OK again. The warning disappeared. The Sysclean file remained in the folder.
If this button is an 'ignore warning' button, I think it needs a further pop-up warning if pressed, along the lines of 'Do you really want to ignore this warning?'
The function of the button definitely needs to be made clear: I suspect users may be pressing it thinking they are going to take the right action to deal with a real virus: in fact it appears they may be ignoring a real threat.
This is a minor quibble about an otherwise great product, but it needs sorting guys!