These are almost always false positives. The checks are based on checksumming and sometimes a perfectly innocent .exe will match the checksum of some virus/malware. The .exe is rebuilt nightly and changes slightly between builds, so you may want just retry after a day or so.
(The AV vendors are behaving pretty irresponsibly in these matters, but as long as it only hits a patch build, I don't think anyone cares enough to take action.) -pd > On 5 Jun 2018, at 00:03 , Paulo Barata <p...@infolink.com.br> wrote: > > Dear R-list members, > > This is just to make a report: Today, 04 June 2018, I attempted to download > R-3.5.0 Patched build for Windows (a .exe file) from the Austria CRAN https > site. My antivirus software, AVG Internet Security with all the latest > updates, aborted the connection, saying that some malware was found - please > see the attached Figure 1. > > I went then to the CRAN mirror at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, > Brazil, and was able to download the .exe file. I immediately asked the AVG > software to scan the file; it found something suspicious and sent the file > for analysis in their labs. Some hours later, AVG said that the file was > malicious, and sent it to quarantine; I am not able to figure out which kind > of malware was supposed to exist in the file - please see the attached Figure > 2. > > Yesterday I was also not able to download the .exe file from the Austria CRAN > site, for the same reason. > > I am not able to evaluate the technical corretness of AVG's decisions. I am > only reporting what happened. > > Paulo Barata > > (Rio de Janeiro - Brazil) > > <Fig-1-Link-from-CRAN-Austria-for-R-3.5.0-patched-0n-04-June-2018.png><Fig-2-R-3.5.0-patched-from-Fiocruz-Brazil-site-on-04-June-2018.png>______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
