[R] This site may harm your computer - Google warning about cran website

Erik Iverson iverson at biostat.wisc.edu
Sat Jan 31 16:25:26 CET 2009


What OS/browser versions are you guys using?

Christos Argyropoulos wrote:
> This is extremely annoying (and it smells of rat). 
> As of this time (1013 am ET), Google issues the following nasty warning: "This site may harm your computer"
> when I try to visit any of the CRAN package repository sites or CRAN task view. 
> 
> The funny thing is that Google's Safe Browsing Diagnostic page (it gives diagnostics about any page that
> it may contain Malware) does not seem to be working at the moment, so that the problems that it found
> with CRAN are not available for review.
> 
> Anyone else has the same problems? 
> 
> Christos Argyropoulos
> 
> University of Pittsburgh
> 
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