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Students 7-10 years

 

1. How can computer viruses spread?

Through e-mail.

Through surfing the net.

Through your keyboard.

They can only be spread by criminals.

 

2. What does a firewall do?

It stops strangers getting into your computer and looking at your files and documents.

It protects your computer from viruses.

It protects the secret documents stored on your computer.

It protects your computer from fire.

 

3. Is the sender of an e-mail message always the person who seems to be the sender of the message?

Yes.

Yes, if you know the sender.

No, it might not be, because sender information can easily be forged.

Only in the UK.

 

4. Your computer screen displays a message that you do not understand. You should:

Continue as if nothing happened.

Click OK or Yes.

Ask your teacher, parent or carer for advice.

Quit using the internet completely.

 

5. When you receive a suspicious e-mail message, you should:

Delete the message without opening it.

Open the message and see if it contains something important.

Open the e-mail attachment if there is one.

Send it to your parents.

 

6. You receive a chain letter in your inbox. The message says that you should forward it to five friends. You should:

Forward it to five friends.

Forward it to not only five friends but ten.

Not forward any chain letters.

Reply to the sender that you do not want any more mails from him/her.

 

7. When can you safely let others know your phone number or home address on the internet?

Always.

If it is specifically asked for.

In chatrooms, when your chat buddy wants to know.

Cautiously to people you trust.

 

8. You accidentally read the password that your friend wrote on a piece of paper. What should you do?

Commit it to memory.

Try to forget the password.

Tell your friend that you read the password and tell him/her to change it and advise him/her not to write passwords down anymore.

Tell the password to your parents.

 

9. What is "netiquette"?

The rules on how to behave at a dining table.

Traffic regulations.

Guidance about how to behave on the internet.

The law concerning the internet.

 

10. What must you not do on the internet?

Bully others.

Search for information.

Play games.

Chat with your friends.