Re: [R] False Virus detection with colorspace package?

2011-11-07 Thread John C Frain
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

Re: [R] False Virus detection with colorspace package?

2011-11-07 Thread Jeff Newmiller
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 f

[R] False Virus detection with colorspace package?

2011-11-07 Thread John C Frain
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 be