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

[Jeff Newmiller]

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?
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>Filename: r-3.1.1-win.exe
>Threat name: WS.Reputation.1
>Full Path: c:\users\owner\downloads\r-3.1.1-win.exe
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>Details
>Unknown Community Usage,  Unknown Age,  Risk Medium
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>Origin
>Downloaded from
> http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/windows/base/R-3.1.1-win.exe
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>Activity
>Actions performed: Actions performed: 1
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>On computers as of
>Not Available
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>Last Used
>7/13/14 at 10:56:56
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>Startup Item
>No
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>Launched
>No
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>Unknown
>It is unknown how many users in the Norton Community have used this
>file.
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>Unknown
>This file release is currently not known.
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>Medium
>This file risk is medium.
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>Threat type: Insight Network Threat. There are many indications that
>this file is untrustworthy and therefore not safe
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>http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/windows/base/R-3.1.1-win.exe
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>Downloaded File r-3.1.1-win.exe Threat name: WS.Reputation.1
> from cmu.edu
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>Source: External Media
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>File Actions
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>File: c:\users\owner\downloads\ r-3.1.1-win.exe Removed
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>File Thumbprint - SHA:
>ce6fb76612aefc482583fb92f4f5c3cb8e8e3bf1a8dda97df7ec5caf746e53fe
>File Thumbprint - MD5:
>Not available
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>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.
>
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