From ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de  Fri Jan 28 14:31:22 2011
From: ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de (Uwe Ligges)
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:31:22 +0100
Subject: [Rd] trojan at current development version?
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On 28.01.2011 13:49, peter dalgaard wrote:
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> On Jan 28, 2011, at 09:47 , Andreas Mayr wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> is it possible, that the current development version  for Windows (
>> http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/R-2.13.0dev-win.exe) is
>> infected by a trojan/virus. My antivir-program (www.avira.com) seems to find
>> a trojan in open.exe at bin\i386.
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> We have seen false positives before (accidental mismatch between virus signatures and legitimate programs). But presumably, the Windows maintainers will double-check, just in case.

Oh yes, we got such reports before. People reported to Avira and it went 
away. Now it is there again. Hopeless, I assume.

Duncan: Perhaps we can add at the download page that Avira reports 
open.exe to be infected from time to time.

Best wishes,
Uwe



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[Rd] trojan at current development version?
Uwe Ligges