DfE laptops for home-schooling found to contain malware ‘Small number’ of machines affected by what users say is a worm that contacts Russian servers Photo: Adobe Stock Images 26 Jan 2021 Laptops distributed to schools as part of government’s £250m programme to support remote learning have been found to feature malware that reportedly causes the computers to “contact Russian servers”. Posts on an online forum for teachers, first reported on by the BBC, revealed that some schools had found that, upon activating devices they had been given for the first time “it was discovered that a number of the laptops are infected with a self-propagating network worm [called] Gamarue.I”.