Some a-hole started a thread outside the CS-forum about a 'final year topic'', and now all students who are too lazy and/or stupid to come up with something themselves, go to google and type: "final...

Yes it is. But my experience with these companies is that they do not like it when 3rd party-software and hardware is connected into their systems. You would need to know how and where the data is...

Probably.

What's a SAP? What programming skills do you have? What do you know about communication protocols?

Download ad-aware (http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edition/3000-8022_4-10399602.html?tag=lst-0-1), install it, then start your computer in safe-mode (by bashing F8 on start up) and scan...