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It depends. If the non-technical person is so frustrated by SmartScreen being wrong all the time that they simply turn it off, or are instructed to turn it off by sites distributing legitimate binaries slandered by SmartScreen, then it's not a net win for security.

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so are you saying its better to let download a (not so commonly downloaded) binary than to warn about it? Thank god you don't work on security software

Personal insults are unnecessary. What I'm saying is, a filter that prevented you from downloading anything would score 100% on this test. That doesn't make it more secure, because users would just disable it.

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