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.

In reply to Re^4: A minilanguage with the least effort? by FunkyMonk
in thread A minilanguage with the least effort? by esk555

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