Possible Trojan in "libRinside.dll"??
Yesterday, I updated JASP from version 0.95.0.0 to 0.95.1.0 on Windows 11. After the installation, my antivirus software AVAST Premium flagged the file "libRinside.dll" and moved it to quarantine, identifying it as infected with the Trojan "Win64:Evo-gen [Tr]".
While searching for "libRinside", I found the file "libRInside.a" in the directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\JASP\Modules\Tools\R_cpp_includes_library\RInside\lib\x64.
However, I noticed something unusual: the directory path "Tools" appears to be deeply nested and repeated multiple times, like this: C:\Program Files (x86)\JASP\Modules\Tools\Tools\Tools\Tools\Tools\Tools\Tools\Tools\Tools\Tools\Tools\Tools\Tools\Tools\Tools\Tools\Tools\Tools\Tools\Tools\Tools\Tools\Tools\Tools\Tools\Tools\Tools
❓ My Questions:
Where should the file "libRinside.dll" normally be stored?
Is this deeply nested "Tools" structure a mistake or part of the intended installation?
Why didn’t AVAST flag the file in version 0.95.0.0?
The previous version ran without any warnings. Has something changed in the file or in AVAST’s detection rules?
Can I simply overwrite the update by reinstalling version 0.95.0.0? Would that restore functionality without triggering the antivirus?
Comments
I have the same issue with this version of JASP (0.95.1), with the file libRinside.dll. My antivirus flags it as a Trojan.
Please let me know if I can ignore it, or if it will be fixed in an update.