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While this is a terrible practice on webdesigners' parts in the first place, it's not an unsafe one unless the user is silly enough to hit OK for any dialogue that pops up. Which is their fault.
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Okay, it *may* be "their fault", -- but will blaming users who probably don't know quite as much about computers as you or me do anything to stop the problem of spyware, etc.? It's been proven in various studies that a shockingly large percentage of users click okay just to get rid of the dialogue box, and without reading it. An okay web browser will blame users for their pathetic failings as frail and fallable human beings. But a good web browser will acknowledge human nature, and be built with the human factor in mind. At least this is one step towards that direction, however small and however much contradicted by having run in the opposite direction for so long on Microsoft's part.