you must be joking!!!

So i was invited to an online survey and because i'm a diligent internet user, I decided to spend some time filling the questionnaire... after a first part with about 20 questions on general use of the computer, they asked me if i agreed to move to the second part of the survey. Once agreed they took me to another server (i believe they sent the responses to the first questions in the meantime) and suddenly the instruction read something like "To download and run the program please click on the button below.... " WHAT??!?! why do i need to download and install an .EXE file to fill a questionnaire?!?!? they must be joking! :-(

As a professional i find this really disappointing. Whoever thinks that internet should be used in such a bad manner should be banned from the list of internet professionals. Sorry guys, whoever you are, but i really mean it. This bad usage of the internet will make our medium (therefore all of us) look bad to users. They need to gain trust in our medium, and we should do all we can to be transparent with them, so that they will be more likely to trust our profesionalism. If someone does something malicious on the web it effects the web's whole reputation. Maybe the EXE file is armless, but did you really need to install an EXE file for asking some questions? i don't think so.