[R] Rtools virus

[Jeff Newmiller]

Sorry to hear that. It is most likely a false positive (antivirus software has little incentive to minimise false positives), but no one here can follow up on your report because you did not say precisely which website you downloaded it from.

On May 5, 2020 8:50:12 PM PDT, Gavan McGrath <gavan.mcgrath using dbca.wa.gov.au> wrote:
>Hi,
>My IT department instructed me to uninstall Windows 64-bit:
>rtools40-x86_64.exe as it contained a virus which they identified at
>
>https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/5c10d60e73dd0186e8f886ef0b9388bb7dbdfdc17366c14c16183edb08fdb58a/detection
>
>Kind Regards,
>
>Dr Gavan McGrath, PhD, B.E.
>
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