I tested uninstalling IE8 and installing the latest download from
Microsoft. The same result. The popup still appears twice both at sign
in and sign out. Sure, it's a Beta version and maybe I am being
prematurely frustrated here, but Internet Explorer is the most used
browser and version 8 will in a relatively near future be the standard
IE version.

In some cases it's even worse. When I visited Network Solutions'
website the popup appeared directly on their index page without even
trying to sign in! I'm pretty sure the people at Network Solutions are
not happy about that.

The problem may in practice not be so serious for large, well-known
and trusted sites like google.com and networksolutions.com but sites
using Google App Engine are generally not as well-known, and when
users are attacked by a popup with the title "Security Alert" that may
make many of them afraid to continue loading the page on lesser known
sites.

I was thinking about posting a thread about this on the IE8 beta
newsgroup but that would be like trying to teach a pig how to sing: it
only wastes your time and irritates the pig. Just kidding! :-) I'm
sure the people working at Microsoft know how to develop software, and
hopefully they will remove this popup 'feature' in the real version of
IE8. At least they should consider changing the title of the nasty
popup to something other than the alarming title: "Security Alert".
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