RE: Spyware in Octave

[Labitt, Bruce]

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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