While exploring and scanning, list the key
words you used to prompt your research—explain why you chose those words.
For this week’s journal I am going
to discuss a couple keywords I used to begin my research. The first term is
malware. I chose malware because my study will be focused on finding out how
concerned people are about malware. Malware is short for malicious software,
which is and umbrella term for all the nastiness you can get from the world wide
web if you browse without protection. This includes worms, trojans, viruses,
root kits, and any other software that was designed with a harmful purpose.
The second set of keywords that was
important to prompt my research was malware protection. It was important for
me, because I want to know what kind of options people have, when it comes to
defending themselves from malware. Especially because my research will be to
determine whether or not people are protecting themselves enough and to do that
I need to be certain of what is available. By understanding what is out there I
will be able to develop sound questions for my survey and have some sort of a
baseline for what is considered a reasonable amount of protection.
Something I wanted to note about using the combination malware protection as my keywords is that I had to further narrow down when searching through Google, because all of my results were the homepages for various antivirus programs and advertisements. The problem with that was, I was just wanting a general overview of solutions to the different forms of malware. Adding wiki to the end help direct me to all the wiki and knowledge base sites that held the basic information I sought. The greatest thing about these sites is that they serve as a general source of information, yet they list their references, allowing me to validate the information. These sources also serve as avenues of further research should I need to explore deeper.
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