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Possible test question.
A university professor that I know just bought a new top of the line computer, and paid a high school kid to spend a day or two installing XP, Office, and a bunch of other software on it.
The first thing he did while surfing the web was to click on a popup, installing a trojan. He had spent so much time worrying about viruses and getting the kid to install virus software, and he went and ran an unknown foreign executable.
So, I propose the following question for our test:
Q: While you are surfing, a pop-up appears. You click the "uninstall" link, and it asks if you want to run the "pop-up uninstall program". What should you do? Choose one:
1. Click "OK", because popups are bad and uninstalling them seems like a good idea.
2. Place the computer in the oven at 450°F for 20 minutes to kill any viruses
3. Call the kid next door and give him all your passwords
4. Hit "cancel" because running foreign executables is a bad idea.
5. It doesn't matter as long as you have a firewall.
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