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Chapter 2: Personal Safety Online
True/False Quiz

1 .       To eliminate malicious e-mail attachments you should configure your e-mail client (or mailer) to open any attachments automatically.  

 
 


2 .       People who use chat clients, instant messenger clients and peer-to-peer file sharing are at greater risk of becoming a target of hackers than people who don't. 

 
 


3 .       A password manager will only help you keep track of the sites you have visited when surfing the Internet. 

 
 


4 .       It is acceptable to trust an operation on the Internet when it has a slick-looking Web site.  

 
 


5 .       Sales transactions with private sellers are riskier than transactions with commercial retailers. 

 
 


6 .       A suggested security practice is to change your password every day. 

 
 


7 .       A Trojan horse program will replicate itself via files that move from one computer to another. 

 
 


8 .       On the Internet, a person performing a copyright violation need not profit from selling materials in order to be found guilty of software piracy. 

 
 


9 .       All forms of intellectual property (text, images, sound clips) are protected by law but students enrolled in a university or college are not allowed to use them for educational projects without restriction. 

 
 


10 .       It is legal to make copies of personal CD recordings for your own use.  

 
 






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