Re^4: A minilanguage with the least effort?

avast is an anti-virus program (I suspect you already knew that), and it popped up the aforementioned warning when I clicked on the link you gave.

Do I have faith in it? I guess I do, in that I believe it when it warns me about malware. Then again, I'm very cautious when it comes to anti-virus, and would believe any AV program's warnings. (Except of course for Norton AV. That's almost malware itself).

Update

The javascript (http://billhails.net/Book/book.js) looked harmless to me (but I know next to nothing about javascript). I took no chances and retrieved the PDF using a Linux console browser (elinks, FWIW).

Thanks for the link.

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Re^5: A minilanguage with the least effort? by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Feb 17, 2009 at 23:20 UTC
I've looked at the pdf with AVG and BitDefender and they find nothing. I also attached a copy of the pdf to an email and sent it to myself so that my isp's multiple, expensive and constantly updated scanners would give it the once over, and they found nothing either. That said, Gavin's Symantec Av also flagged the link. So, you pays your maney and takes your choice I guess. I can tell that I have opened the pdf (with FoxIt) and there is no sign of anything untoward. Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice. "Too many [] have been sedated by an oppressive environment of political correctness and risk aversion."	[reply]
Re^5: A minilanguage with the least effort? by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Feb 18, 2009 at 00:21 UTC
I took no chances and retrieved the PDF using a Linux console browser I routinely run with JS disabled. As far as I can tell, book.js is only used for the presentation of/links to footnotes in the online html version of the book (see the link bottom left). Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice. "Too many [] have been sedated by an oppressive environment of political correctness and risk aversion."	[reply]
Re^6: A minilanguage with the least effort? by Gavin (Archbishop) on Feb 18, 2009 at 11:43 UTC
My copy of AV flags it as "Threat detected RUGTUNGR\Book1.htm virus Identified" It seems to be a downloader in the HTML page HTML/Framer.Z	[reply]
Re^7: A minilanguage with the least effort? by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Feb 18, 2009 at 12:06 UTC
I've emailed Bill Hails to inform him of the JS attached at the bottom of that page. Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice. "Too many [] have been sedated by an oppressive environment of political correctness and risk aversion."	[reply]