[R] Norton Virus program indicates that R3.1.1 is not reliable

I was downloading the latest version of R from the CMU mirror and got the following message (also tried the MTU mirror and got the same). Has anyone else seen this? Filename: r-3.1.1-win.exe Threat name: WS.Reputation.1 Full Path: c:\users\owner\downloads\r-3.1.1-win.exe

Re: [R] Norton Virus program indicates that R3.1.1 is not reliable

Have seen it. Had to override Norton and tell it to ignore the threat. Been awhile, don't off the top of my head remember how I did that. --- Jeff NewmillerThe . . Go Live...

Re: [R] Norton Virus program indicates that R3.1.1 is not reliable

Glad to see that I am not the only one seeing the error. I was getting it on my other (company) computer that has Symantec and it will not allow me to override and do the install. Guess I will check again in a couple of days and see it it clears up. Will also check to see if I can contact

Re: [R] Norton Virus program indicates that R3.1.1 is not reliable

Jim, You can file a Type I error on the file here: https://submit.symantec.com/false_positive/ rather than waiting. I had seen similar reports, not on R, but elsewhere with this particular Symantec community based detection. I am not a user, but since it appears to be a community based