Trojan warning for www.r-project.org

[um_user 0]

This issue seems to have been going on for years.  Should I just ditch NOD32?  It is highly unlikely that the website is infected.  Further, various parts of the website can be visited.  What is going on??

 

 

[Marcos 5,074]

I still see this awful obfuscated code there:

 

The owner of the website should replace it either with an image or non-obfuscated script.

[um_user 0]

I'm sorry, Marcos, but this is the same unhelpful response that I've seen going years back in the eset forum.  "The owner of the website"? This is the main R website, and R is THE open source statistics and graphics system.  It gets incomparably more traffic and downloads than Eset.  I am sorry that you object to a piece of code, but I find your response just tremendously arrogant.

Try again.

[Marcos 5,074]

The javascript used on the website is obfuscated in a way that malware authors obfuscate malicious scripts to evade detection which is why it's detected. For more information about why we don't recommend using this kind of obfuscation, see http://www.welivesecurity.com/2011/05/17/obfuscated-javascript-oh-what-a-tangled-web/.

You can add this particular website to the list of URLs excluded from protocol filtering to avoid detection.