Re: Spyware in Octave

[dbateman]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:18:59AM +0200, Michael Goffioul wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 5:51 PM, dbateman <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> sed.exe appears to be installed in two places.  The 100K file is in the
> >> Octave\bin directory.  There is also another sed.exe that is installed
> >> in the Octave\mysys\bin directory which is only 47K.  Only the
> >> Octave\bin\sed.exe is flagged as being suspicious.
> >>
> >
> > Not sure why Michael included a second version. Perhaps he built his own
> > MSVC sed in octave/bin/sed.exe and the other one just happened to be there,
> > built with mingw, when he installed msys. You'd have to ask Michael for the
> > reason.
> 
> To be able to use octave help without MinGW being around.


Kind of thought it was something like that. Though maybe you should say 
so on the list, as the point is that it is normal to have two versions 
of sed.exe in the octave directory, and that this spyware report is just 
a false positive from an over zealous spyware scanner.

D.