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All the information I have is contained in my first submission (i.e., the student's email). I will pass along your question and see if his software (System Mechanic) gave more details, but now that he has purged Octave from his system, I don't know if he will still have a report to refer to.
On Sep 16, 2008, at 2:18 PM, Labitt, Bruce wrote: I have a windows octave 3.0.1 installation. What file(s) are suspect? -Bruce To follow-up, my student had installed a Windows binary---he thinks it was version 3.0.1 from octave-forge. He cannot be sure because he has purged it from his computer. Unfortunately, he gave me no "heads up" about this. The first I heard of it was with the email I shared earlier, which he had addressed to the entire class. Now I may have a class full of students who have all purged it from their machines before there has been any opportunity to investigate this. If that is the case, I don't think it will be easy to convince them to re-install it even if I am able to promise them that the binary is spyware-free. Who is equipped to 1) verify my student's claim that spyware has infected the binary, 2) comment on how it may have gotten there, and 3) purge it? -------------------------------------------------------- Department of Mathematics and Statistics --------------------------------------------------------
Thomas L. Scofield -------------------------------------------------------- Associate Professor Department of Mathematics and Statistics Calvin College --------------------------------------------------------
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