jim holtman
2014-Jul-13 15:03 UTC
Norton Virus program indicates that R3.1.1 is not reliable
I was downloading the latest version of R from the CMU mirror and got the following message (also tried the MTU mirror and got the same). Has anyone else seen this? =======================Filename: r-3.1.1-win.exe Threat name: WS.Reputation.1 Full Path: c:\users\owner\downloads\r-3.1.1-win.exe ____________________________ Details Unknown Community Usage, Unknown Age, Risk Medium Origin Downloaded from http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/windows/base/R-3.1.1-win.exe Activity Actions performed: Actions performed: 1 ____________________________ On computers as of Not Available Last Used 7/13/14 at 10:56:56 Startup Item No Launched No ____________________________ Unknown It is unknown how many users in the Norton Community have used this file. Unknown This file release is currently not known. Medium This file risk is medium. Threat type: Insight Network Threat. There are many indications that this file is untrustworthy and therefore not safe ____________________________ http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/windows/base/R-3.1.1-win.exe Downloaded File r-3.1.1-win.exe Threat name: WS.Reputation.1 from cmu.edu Source: External Media ____________________________ File Actions File: c:\users\owner\downloads\ r-3.1.1-win.exe Removed ____________________________ File Thumbprint - SHA: ce6fb76612aefc482583fb92f4f5c3cb8e8e3bf1a8dda97df7ec5caf746e53fe File Thumbprint - MD5: Not available Jim Holtman Data Munger Guru What is the problem that you are trying to solve? Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it.