Thanks. This is exactly what I thought. The idea was to check if anyone else had detected a problem. I have since discovered http://virusscan.jotti.org which allows one to check the files using 20 different anti-virus programs. Only AVG detected a virus. The other 19 reported no problems.
Best Regards John On 7 November 2011 23:44, Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote: > This kind of thing is all too common. You can download the source, review the > code, and build the package yourself, and compare the supplied binary with > your home-built one. Chances are AVG will complain about that one too, and > you can confirm the false positive. Anti virus software is not too friendly > with non-mainstream software. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... > DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... > Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing > Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with > /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. > > John C Frain <fra...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>After updating to version 2.14 and copying packages from my Version >>2.13.2 library I ran >> >>update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE,ask=FALSE) to update these packages. >>This failed because AVG reported a virus in the "temporary" copy of >>colorspace.dll created during the install and the update then failed >>because it was unable to open this temporary file. To continue I >>deleted the colorspace packages and its reverse dependences and the >>reverse dependencies of the reverse dependencies. After deleting >>these packages the update process then finished. >> >>I would presume that the virus is probably a false detection. However >>when I virus check the version 2.13.2 library AVG does not find a >>virus. As far as I can determine the only difference between the two >>packages is that they are built with different versions of R. I would >>intend to reinstall these packages when the problem has been solved. >>I am sending a report to AVG. For the moment I can fall back to the >>earlier version if necessary. >> >>Has any one else detected a similar problem. >> >>An extract of the diagnosis sent to AVG is below. >> >>Best regards >> >>John >> >>AVG Free Version 2012.0.1869 Virus database 2092/4602 detects a virus >>in the colorspace package in the R statistical system. The zip file >>containing the offending file can be downloaded from >> >>http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/r-release/colorspace_1.1-0.zip >>or from any of the CRAN mirrors. >> >>The message produced by AVG is >> >>***************************************************** >> >>File name: c:\.....\colourspace\libs\i386\colorspace.dll >> >>Threat name: Virus found Win32/Heur >> >>Detected on open >> >>***************************************************** >> >>Is this a false positive? >> >>-- >>John C Frain >>Economics Department >>Trinity College Dublin >>Dublin 2 >>Ireland >>www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html >>mailto:fra...@tcd.ie >>mailto:fra...@gmail.com >> >>______________________________________________ >>R-help@r-project.org mailing list >>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. > > -- John C Frain Economics Department Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2 Ireland www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html mailto:fra...@tcd.ie mailto:fra...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.
