[R] R-2.7.2 infected?

Peter Dalgaard P.Dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk
Tue Sep 23 09:59:02 CEST 2008


Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> Dave DeBarr wrote:
>>> Did you check the md5 checksum on it?
>>>     
>>
>> Yes; it matched: 540090dd892657804d1099c54d6f770d
>>
>>   
> And it is binary identical to the Austria CRAN one.
>>  
>>> You're the first to report it, and 2.7.2 has been out for almost a
>>> month, so I think it's likely that the CRAN copy is uninfected.
>>>     
>>
>> Sounds promising.  Perhaps it's a false positive from eTrust.
>>
>>
>>   
> Likely. A quick Googling indicates that other programs have been
> "caught" too.
> This link is illuminative:
> http://www.cccp-project.net/forums/index.php?topic=2897.0

(I wanted to do the same thing with R, but http://www.virustotal.com has
a 20M cap on the file size.)

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