From pdalgd at gmail.com  Fri Jan 28 13:49:48 2011
From: pdalgd at gmail.com (peter dalgaard)
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:49:48 +0100
Subject: [Rd] trojan at current development version?
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On Jan 28, 2011, at 09:47 , Andreas Mayr wrote:

> 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.

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.


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[Rd] trojan at current development version?
peter dalgaard