Virus scanners generate a fair amount of false positives. Does it persist if you unpack the zip file or the source tarball? If so, what file has the issue?
-pd On 23 Oct 2015, at 09:38 , Bijoy Joseph <bijoy.jos...@thl.fi> wrote: > Hello, > > I came across the following when I was installing the 'svs' package: > > $ clamscan svs_1.0.3.zip > svs_1.0.3.zip: BAT.CMDFlood FOUND > > ----------- SCAN SUMMARY ----------- > Known viruses: 4035827 > Engine version: 0.98.7 > Scanned directories: 0 > Scanned files: 1 > Infected files: 1 > > > clamscan finds this trojan in the source tarball as well. Does the r-project > does a virus scan of contributed packages? I had come across a virus a few > years earlier, but an email to the maintainer fixed that issue. I have heard > nothing (yet) from the maintainer in this case. > > Bijoy > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
