I looked at the home website and found a contact form which someone could use to inform the company of the error of their ways.
http://www.prevx.com/contactus.asp I will leave it to those who may be better equipped to deal with any replies from the company to contact them. Dan Daniel Nordlund Bothell, WA USA > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Tony Plate > Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 2:30 PM > To: Peter Dalgaard > Cc: R help forum; Philippe Grosjean > Subject: Re: [R] R is a virus, spyware or malware (gasp!) > > And the installed Rgui.exe in 2.6.2 is 10240 bytes, which is > their "most common file size." > > They also say (fill in your own comments...): > > > RGUI.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior(s): > > > > * Can communicate with other computer systems using > HTTP protocols > > * This Process Creates Other Processes On Disk > > * This Process Deletes Other Processes From Disk > > * Executes a Process > > * The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a > software packing process > > * Accesses the MS Outlook Address Book > > and > > > What you should do about RGUI.EXE: > > > > Check Your PC Now > > The most common objects with the name of RGUI.EXE have > yet to be classified as safe by our research department. > > So, I suspect that they don't actually classify it as a > virus, they just haven't classified it as safe... (I > couldn't see any email contact address on their web page.) > > -- Tony Plate > > > Peter Dalgaard wrote: > > Ioannis Dimakos wrote: > >> Of course it's a virus. Once you catch the virus, you feel this rush, > >> this fever to abandon all other statistical packages. > >> > >> On a more serious note, though, the size of the RGUI.exe file as reported > >> in the webpage is not even near close to the actual size of the R > >> distribution exe pack. > >> > > Hmm, the installed Rgui.exe in 2.7.0rc (which is all I have, under Wine > > on a Fedora machine) appears to be 27648 bytes, which is one of the > > cited numbers. > > > > Presumably something needs to be done... > > > > > >> I > >> > >> ==== > >> On Sun, May 18, 2008 17:30, Philippe Grosjean wrote: > >> > >>> After a search session in Google, I found this page: > >>> http://www.prevx.com/filenames/X1993788672854780728-0/RGUI.EXE.html > >>> which classifies Rgui.exe (clearly stated as "R for Windows GUI > >>> front-end") in a database of virus, spyware and malware! > >>> > >>> No comments! > >>> > >>> Philippe Grosjean > >>> > >>> ______________________________________________ > >>> 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. ______________________________________________ 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.
