[R] Norton Virus program indicates that R3.1.1 is not reliable

[jim holtman]

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?

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Filename: r-3.1.1-win.exe
Threat name: WS.Reputation.1
Full Path: c:\users\owner\downloads\r-3.1.1-win.exe

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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



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On computers as of
Not Available


Last Used
7/13/14 at 10:56:56


Startup Item
No


Launched
No


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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



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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



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File Actions

File: c:\users\owner\downloads\ r-3.1.1-win.exe Removed
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File Thumbprint - SHA:
ce6fb76612aefc482583fb92f4f5c3cb8e8e3bf1a8dda97df7ec5caf746e53fe
File Thumbprint - MD5:
Not available


Jim Holtman
Data Munger Guru

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