[R] strange behavior with R.dll

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 11-10-12 7:54 PM, Joshua Wiley wrote:
> I regularly have the R.dll removed.  AFAI can tell, it depends partly on how aggressive a heuristic level you have chosen, in part I think related to the number of users.  In any case you can restore it and set a rule to have it ignored.  I suppose you could tell symantec, but it's never been enough of a nuisance to me to set my own rules to bother trying to contact them.

 From your own builds, or the pre-built binaries?

Duncan Murdoch

> Josh
>
> On Oct 12, 2011, at 12:09, Duncan Murdoch<murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> On 12/10/2011 3:03 PM, Erin Hodgess wrote:
>>> Dear R People:
>>>
>>> I am using R-2.13.2 on a Windows 7 machine.
>>>
>>> I compiled from source on 32 bit a couple of weeks ago and the R.dll
>>> got removed by my anti-virus software.
>>>
>>> Same thing on 64 bit today.
>>>
>>> Is anyone having this problem, please?
>>>
>>> I'm using Norton AV.
>>
>> I haven't heard of this particular problem before.  Generally the problems we have had have been with other Antivirus programs finding false positives in our pre-compiled distributions.
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
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