And the installed Rgui.exe in 2.6.2 is 10240 bytes, which is
their "most common file size."
They also say (fill in your own comments...):
> RGUI.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior(s):
>
> * Can communicate with other computer systems using
HTTP protocols
> * This Process Creates Other Processes On Disk
> * This Process Deletes Other Processes From Disk
> * Executes a Process
> * The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a
software packing process
> * Accesses the MS Outlook Address Book
and
> What you should do about RGUI.EXE:
>
> Check Your PC Now
> The most common objects with the name of RGUI.EXE have
yet to be classified as safe by our research department.
So, I suspect that they don't actually classify it as a
virus, they just haven't classified it as safe... (I
couldn't see any email contact address on their web page.)
-- Tony Plate
Peter Dalgaard wrote:
Ioannis Dimakos wrote:
Of course it's a virus. Once you catch the virus, you feel this rush,
this fever to abandon all other statistical packages.
On a more serious note, though, the size of the RGUI.exe file as reported
in the webpage is not even near close to the actual size of the R
distribution exe pack.
Hmm, the installed Rgui.exe in 2.7.0rc (which is all I have, under Wine
on a Fedora machine) appears to be 27648 bytes, which is one of the
cited numbers.
Presumably something needs to be done...
I
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On Sun, May 18, 2008 17:30, Philippe Grosjean wrote:
After a search session in Google, I found this page:
http://www.prevx.com/filenames/X1993788672854780728-0/RGUI.EXE.html
which classifies Rgui.exe (clearly stated as "R for Windows GUI
front-end") in a database of virus, spyware and malware!
No comments!
Philippe Grosjean
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