Re: [R] Rtools virus

2020-05-08 Thread Gavan McGrath
-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Rtools virus [External Email] This email was sent from outside the department � be cautious, particularly with links and attachments. Sorry to hear that. It is most likely a false positive (antivirus software has little incentive to minimise false positives), but no one

Re: [R] Rtools virus

2020-05-08 Thread Ivan Krylov
On Fri, 08 May 2020 07:58:34 -0700 Jeff Newmiller wrote: >no one here can follow up on your report because you did not say >precisely which website you downloaded it from To be fair, the SHA-256 sum in the VirusTotal report matches the one of rtools40-x86_64.exe: wget -qO- \ https://cran.r-pro

Re: [R] Rtools virus

2020-05-08 Thread Jeff Newmiller
Sorry to hear that. It is most likely a false positive (antivirus software has little incentive to minimise false positives), but no one here can follow up on your report because you did not say precisely which website you downloaded it from. On May 5, 2020 8:50:12 PM PDT, Gavan McGrath wrote