This kind of thing is all too common. You can download the source, review the code, and build the package yourself, and compare the supplied binary with your home-built one. Chances are AVG will complain about that one too, and you can confirm the false positive. Anti virus software is not too friendly with non-mainstream software. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
John C Frain <fra...@gmail.com> wrote: >After updating to version 2.14 and copying packages from my Version >2.13.2 library I ran > >update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE,ask=FALSE) to update these packages. >This failed because AVG reported a virus in the "temporary" copy of >colorspace.dll created during the install and the update then failed >because it was unable to open this temporary file. To continue I >deleted the colorspace packages and its reverse dependences and the >reverse dependencies of the reverse dependencies. After deleting >these packages the update process then finished. > >I would presume that the virus is probably a false detection. However >when I virus check the version 2.13.2 library AVG does not find a >virus. As far as I can determine the only difference between the two >packages is that they are built with different versions of R. I would >intend to reinstall these packages when the problem has been solved. >I am sending a report to AVG. For the moment I can fall back to the >earlier version if necessary. > >Has any one else detected a similar problem. > >An extract of the diagnosis sent to AVG is below. > >Best regards > >John > >AVG Free Version 2012.0.1869 Virus database 2092/4602 detects a virus >in the colorspace package in the R statistical system. The zip file >containing the offending file can be downloaded from > >http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/r-release/colorspace_1.1-0.zip >or from any of the CRAN mirrors. > >The message produced by AVG is > >***************************************************** > >File name: c:\.....\colourspace\libs\i386\colorspace.dll > >Threat name: Virus found Win32/Heur > >Detected on open > >***************************************************** > >Is this a false positive? > >-- >John C Frain >Economics Department >Trinity College Dublin >Dublin 2 >Ireland >www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html >mailto:fra...@tcd.ie >mailto:fra...@gmail.com > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.