1. To what extent can e-mail messages be used to spread computer viruses?

Over 90%

80%

75%

100%

2. What is "Slammer"?

A game.

A browser.

A virus.

A toothpaste brand.

3. What should you do when you receive lots of junk mail?

Delete the messages and activate the junk mail filtering feature.

Reply to each message and ask the senders not to send any more messages.

Open the messages and see what they contain.

Quit using e-mail completely.

4. What should you do if you have important files?

Store them on the hard disk of your computer.

Send them to your friend by e-mail.

Delete the files and print them on paper.

Make backup copies.

5. What is the safest way to get operating system updates?

By installing them from a CD or from the service provider's internet site.

By installing them from an e-mail message.

By installing them from newsgroups.

By downloading them from peer-to-peer networks.

6. Can you access another user's unprotected computer from another computer?

No.

Only if the user allows that.

Yes.

Yes, but that can be heard as a knocking sound.

7. How can I prevent unwanted users from accessing my computer via the internet?

By using antivirus software.

By closing the internet browser after each use.

By dialling the HelpDesk.

By using a firewall.

8. If you enter chatrooms, you should:

Use your own name because you should be who you really are on the internet.

Choose a nickname that has already been used.

Choose your own nickname.

Check the chatroom's practise and act according to it.

9. A person you met in a chatroom asks you to meet him/her.
What should you do?

Agree immediately.

Agree but ask a friend to come along.

Talk to your parents about it and if you must go always take an adult and meet in a public place.

Ask your online friendfor his/her phone number so that you can arrange to meet in a safe place.

10. What should you not tell anyone in chatrooms or discussion groups?

Your hobbies.

Your home address.

Your nickname.

Your favourite band.

11. One of the following is true, which one?

Everything that is found on the internet is true.

You cannot trust anything you find on the internet.

You can trust information that is found on the websites of well-known organisations.

Not all information that is found on the internet is correct.

12. When you browse and communicate on the internet:

You leave electronic traces ‘digital footprints’ that can be used to track pages that you have visited and the IP address of the computer that you have used.

You leave electronic traces, but you can erase all of them by yourself.

No-one can track pages you have browsed.

You leave electronic traces that are only stored on your own computer.

13. If you send your own picture to a Web page or publish it on a Web page and want to erase it later, what can you do?

Once a picture of you is published online you have lost control of it. It is possible that you may never be able to remove it.

The picture may easily be removed by asking the site's webmaster.

You can remove the picture from the site by yourself.

You can contact the police.

14. When you have a problem and enter a discussion forum to ask for help:

You should ask for help in the first forum you enter, because internet users like to help each other.

You should find an appropriate forum first (or a forum on the right topic first) and ask there.

You should find an appropriate forum first and check if someone else has asked the same question and got an answer. If not, you can ask your question.

You should not join discussions on the internet.

15. If you publish pictures on your own website:

You can freely use pictures found on other users' pages on your own pages, because the internet is free.

You can freely use pictures found on other users' pages as long as you mention the source of the pictures.

You can freely use pictures found on other users' pages as long as you inform the owners of the pictures.

You must first get permission to use the pictures from the owner of the pictures.

16. If you include a link to another person's page on your own website:

You must ask permission.

It is up to you to decide whether to ask for permission or not.

It is a good practice to ask for permission first.

You commit a crime.

17. What is illegal on the internet?

Making copies of files for your own use.

Searching for information for your school homework.

Adopting an idea for your schoolhomework.

Copying information exactly as you find it for your school homework.

18. Who is responsible for material that is published on the internet?

No-one. Anyone can freely publish anything on the internet.

The person who has created the internet pages.

The parents of the person who has created the internet pages.

The service provider whose server is used to store the pages.

19. You want to publish a photo of your friend taken by you on your homepage or send it to a photo gallery on the internet. What should you do?

You can freely publish the photo on the internet or send it to a photo gallery.

You have to ask your friend for permission in order to publish the photo.

You can freely publish the photo on your own homepage, but you cannot send it to other sites.

You cannot publish the photo or send it, even if you have got your friend's permission.

20. Pretending to be someone else on the internet is:

Illegal.

Only allowed on special occasions.

A good joke.

Exciting.