[R] virus/trojan in contributed package: 'svs'

[Bijoy Joseph]

Hello,

I came across the following when I was installing the 'svs' package:

$ clamscan svs_1.0.3.zip
svs_1.0.3.zip: BAT.CMDFlood FOUND

----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 4035827
Engine version: 0.98.7
Scanned directories: 0
Scanned files: 1
Infected files: 1


clamscan finds this trojan in the source tarball as well. Does the 
r-project does a virus scan of contributed packages? I had come across a 
virus a few years earlier, but an email to the maintainer fixed that 
issue. I have heard nothing (yet) from the maintainer in this case.

Bijoy