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Focus Stealing Reboot Popups That Default To Yes Are A Really Bad Idea

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BitDefender just unilaterally decided to reboot my computer without any chance to cancel the process. Luckily I wasn't working on anything that important, but I easily could have lost work.


Here's what happened: BitDefender decided to launch a popup that stole keyboard focus just as I was hitting the space bar. The space bar triggered the default action of the popup, which was apparently to reboot my computer without confirmation.


This is not good UX. Popups should never steal keyboard focus, particularly if they're prompting the user to take a destructive action.


This is on Windows 10 with BitDefender IS 2016.