Re: Spyware in Octave

[Thomas L. Scofield]

It took me until now to see D's original reply to my note (reply was just to the list, not to me too).

>  > 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?

>  You forgot two other optons

>

> 4) False detection (report the bug to the maker of the spyware scanner)

> 5) Spyware installed after the installation of Octave.

My list was meant to be looked at using short-circuit evaluation.  Your 4 and 5 were implied if 1) was false.

Thomas L. Scofield

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Associate Professor

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Calvin College

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