Interesting email today from a LA that the Windows Laptops provided by the DFE to schools for lockdown are potentially infected with a virus before being passed onto school.
Upon unboxing and preparing them it was discovered that a number of the laptops are infected with a self-propagating network worm (Gamarue.I). The network worm looks like it contacts Russian servers when active.
The DFE helpdesk has been notified and a screenshot of infected files has been provided to them. This shows the infected file was last modified on 7/12/2019 shortly after the laptop was manufactured. The DFE have confirmed that a few schools have reported this.