Paulo Barata wrote:
Dr. Murdoch and Dr. Ligges,
After my contacts with Avira, it seems that the issue caused by
their antivirus software (a false positive alarm) has been solved.
Now I have been able to install R 2.12.0 flawlessly.
Thanks for following up on this.
Duncan Murdoch
Thank you.
Paulo Barata
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On 17/10/2010 17:53, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
Paulo Barata wrote:
Dear Dr. Murdoch,
My thanks to you and to Dr. Ligges for your replies.
I will do my part and will inform Avira about what happened.
If possible, I will send then the R 2.12.0 installation
file for their examination. As Dr. Ligges said, it is quite
possible indeed that a false positive alarm has happened.
But please allow me to point out that Avira, as far as I know,
is considered to be one of the best pieces of antivirus software
in the market. See, for instance, the AV Comparatives web site at
www.av-comparatives.org. No antivirus software is 100% perfect,
that is, in the real world there is no software with a 0% false
positive rate. Or, looking from the other side, every antivirus
software is "sloppy" in some way. Considering that fact,
shouldn't the R core team have some definite policy with regard
to false positive alarms concerning the R installation file?
Is this the first time that this happened? Will this be the last
time?
This is by no means the first time, and I doubt it will be the last
time.
I think our policy is listed in the banner that prints when you
start R:
"R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY."
If you want a stronger warranty, you could try looking at commercial
software (or commercial builds of R), but I doubt you'll get one
that's worth very much.
Duncan Murdoch
Best regards,
Paulo Barata
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On 17/10/2010 17:10, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
Uwe Ligges wrote:
I checked with two online services which ran more than 40
different virus scanners on the file and only Avira gave a
warning. Hence I assume it is a false positive with Avira and you
can go on with the installation.
@ Duncan as the maintainer for the binary setup installer: It
might make sense to report the false positive to Avira in order to
protect ourselves from dozens of messages on this list tomorrow.
Additionally, you may want to add a note on the CRAN download page.
I don't think so. False positives from sloppy virus checkers are too
common. Paulo may want to help out Avira by pointing out their
error, but I won't.
Duncan Murdoch
Best wishes,
Uwe Ligges
On 17.10.2010 20:18, Paulo Barata wrote:
Dear R-list members,
I have just downloaded R 2.12.0 for Windows. When installing,
my antivirus software detected some malware during the
installation process.
I use Windows XP SP3. My antivirus software is Avira Premium
Security Suite, product version 10.0.0.542 (19/4/2010),
search engine 8.02.04.82 (14/10/2010), virus definition file
7.10.12.231 (17/10/2010). That software said: "Malware found".
When I clicked in "details", I found this information: object:
open.exe; Detection: TR/ATRAPS.Gen. Consulting the Avira web
site, this is indicated as a Trojan, dated 15 May 2008.
I have repeated the installation process twice, always with
the same malware detection. When installing, I used the English
language, I ticked the "Technical Manuals", "PDF help pages"
and "docs for Packages grid and Matrix", and I used the
default options.
Should I proceed with the installation of that version of R?
Thank you very much.
Paulo Barata
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