I am trying to install the devtools package with install.packages("devtools"):
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/RenR/Documents/R/win-library/3.2’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) also installing the dependencies ‘httr’, ‘rstudioapi’, ‘withr’
There are binary versions available but the source versions are later: binary source needs_compilation httr 1.2.1 1.3.1 FALSE rstudioapi 0.6 0.7 FALSE withr 1.0.2 2.0.0 FALSE devtools 1.12.0 1.13.3 TRUE
Binaries will be installed trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.2/devtools_1.12.0.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 432097 bytes (421 KB) downloaded 421 KB
However, after downloading and unpacking, my internetsecurity takes over and removes devtools.dll. The report I get is (translated):
Harmful file "devtools.dll" removed
Cause: Trojan.RansomKD.12238347, location C:\Users...
Is it possible that there really is something harmful in devtools, or is my internetsecurity overreacting?!