Journal week 3

     So far I am on track with my plan, as I have completed the final draft of my survey and will deploy it tomorrow. I will then tell my friends on Facebook to take it. On Wednesday I will pass out a slip in class with the URL and encourage my classmates to participate. Hopefully I will get a large turnout, but I will try to look for other outlets to advertise my survey.
    In the meantime, I will also be selecting what kind of information I want to provide my audience with about malware out of my old security books and possibly reinforcing it with info from online sources as well. I have a few sites in mind, like Wikipedia's entry on malware and the sources listed below. However, I think my collections of textbooks are probably enough.

    That is my progress report. As for addressing one of the questions, the most challenging in selecting a research topic for this assignment was defining my big question. After the suggestion of doing a survey, I have had more focus on where I want to go with my study. I knew I wanted to look into ways to prevent different types of malware, but as a security administrator, I would be more concerned with the general attitude about malware protection. It will be interesting to see how serious people take their security.