In: Computer Science
A coworker asks you to download and install a program from the internet. How do you respond?
Downloading programs from internet may cause harmful to the system's performance. That is malicious code make our system in a dangerous situation. So we should be very careful while downloading from internet. Make it sure that downloading file is from a trusted website.
If we run a program downloaded from the Internet, we could be introducing dangerous viruses to the system. You should check the system's antivirus is up to date and working properly. If no antivirus is onstalled, we sholud set up an antivirus program to scan files before downloading them. It is the best way to avoid harmful files while downloading.
Check the download file has a digital signature in it, if yes, make sure that the signature is valid and the program is from a trusted site. Digital signature get from the publisher link in the security warning dialog box that opens. If it is not trusted site, inform it about our manager that couldn't be downloaded.