[R] Virus Infection in colorspace_1.1-1.zip (R x64 2.14.1)

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 24/01/2012 7:44 PM, R. Michael Weylandt wrote:
> I'm skeptical that CRAN would produce a bug, but it's not unheard of
> for anti-viruses to not like its compiled code. Are you able to
> compile locally? That might make it more comfortable -- if you do so,
> you could also white list those files (since you made them)
>
> Not a perfect workaround, but AV tends not to like OSS stuff for
> whatever reason...

AVG contacted me about colorspace.dll.  They tracked down the false 
positive and have corrected it.   For future problems like this, they said:

>
> In the future if any part of the R Project software is being detected 
> by AVG Anti-Virus software,
>
> please submit them to our Virus Labs at 
> http://www.avg.com/us-en/whitelist.
>
> Could you help me with forwarding this information to your public forums?

Duncan Murdoch