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?
Thomas L. Scofield -------------------------------------------------------- Associate Professor Department of Mathematics and Statistics Calvin College --------------------------------------------------------
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