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RE: Spyware in Octave
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Labitt, Bruce |
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RE: Spyware in Octave |
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Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:56:06 -0400 |
For what it is worth, I have Octave 3.0.1 on my windows laptop and just
ran a complete scan of my machine using McAfee. It found nothing. I
checked the logs and there was no mention of this spyware cookie. I
also searched the hard drive for anything like the name 'look2me'. I
did not find anything.
I installed octave 3.0.1 around May 12, 2008.
-Bruce
-----Original Message-----
From: dbateman [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 5:21 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Spyware in Octave
thomas.l.scofield wrote:
>
>
> Well, this is not the action Przemek Klosowski indicated would be
> "the only way to know for sure"---I don't know if the student who
> originally reported the problem is willing to do anything more with
> Octave or not. But my students do talk to one another. Here is a
> report from another student in the class who tried to investigate it
> himself. I don't know anything about Spyware. Is deleting a cookie
> a possible fix?
>
> Now that I have two people claiming there is an issue (though I don't
> know for sure it's the same issue), I'm wondering whether the
> existence of Spyware in that one binary (if it's there at all) might
> raise concern over its presence in others. Could it be in Mac
> binaries as well?
>
The presence of a spyware cookie in any particular directory is only an
indication that that is where its choose to hide, not that the original
installer is infected...
D.
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- Spyware in Octave, Thomas L. Scofield, 2008/09/16
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- Re: Spyware in Octave, dbateman, 2008/09/16
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- Re: Spyware in Octave, dbateman, 2008/09/17
- RE: Spyware in Octave, Labitt, Bruce, 2008/09/17
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