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

[Marc Schwartz]

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 system for this detection, it will take the Symantec user community to file reports and get it removed from detection.

Regards,

Marc Schwartz

On Jul 13, 2014, at 10:30 AM, jim holtman <jholtman at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 Norton and Symantec about the problem.
> 
> Jim Holtman
> Data Munger Guru
> 
> What is the problem that you are trying to solve?
> Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it.
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Jeff Newmiller
> <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
>> 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.
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>> On July 13, 2014 8:03:37 AM PDT, jim holtman <jholtman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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
>>> 
>>> ____________________________
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Details
>>> Unknown Community Usage,  Unknown Age,  Risk Medium
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Origin
>>> Downloaded from
>>> http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/windows/base/R-3.1.1-win.exe
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Activity
>>> Actions performed: Actions performed: 1
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ____________________________
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On computers as of
>>> Not Available
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Last Used
>>> 7/13/14 at 10:56:56
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Startup Item
>>> No
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Launched
>>> No
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ____________________________
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Unknown
>>> It is unknown how many users in the Norton Community have used this
>>> file.
>>> 
>>> Unknown
>>> This file release is currently not known.
>>> 
>>> Medium
>>> This file risk is medium.
>>> 
>>> Threat type: Insight Network Threat. There are many indications that
>>> this file is untrustworthy and therefore not safe
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ____________________________
>>> 
>>> 
>>> http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/windows/base/R-3.1.1-win.exe
>>> 
>>> Downloaded File r-3.1.1-win.exe Threat name: WS.Reputation.1
>>> from cmu.edu
>>> 
>>> Source: External Media
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ____________________________
>>> 
>>> File Actions
>>> 
>>> File: c:\users\owner\downloads\ r-3.1.1-win.exe Removed
>>> ____________________________
>>> 
>>> 
>>> File Thumbprint - SHA:
>>> ce6fb76612aefc482583fb92f4f5c3cb8e8e3bf1a8dda97df7ec5caf746e53fe
>>> File Thumbprint - MD5:
>>> Not available
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Jim Holtman
>>> Data Munger Guru
>>> 
>>> What is the problem that you are trying to solve?
>>> Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it.