Progress Report Week 2

 I have made progress in narrowing down a question to base my report on. What are people doing to protect their computers? To be more specific, I will be conducting a survey to find out what kind of malware detection and/or prevention software they use. Alongside finding the results, I will also research the different options we have available, such as the ways anti-virus detects malware (signature base, heuristics, ect.). 

So far, the only roadblock has been coming up with a research topic that I can be satisfied with. Fortunately, my instructor helped me flesh it out with the suggestion of the survey. The next challenge will be creating a survey that will give me enough useful data to work with and encouraging people to take it. I plan on having the class and other tech students take it, since they all are virtual guaranteed to have a computer. My next week will be spent on the creation of my survey as well as coming up with a method of deployment and collection. I hope to have at least 30 participants and I need to find an incentive to get them to take it.