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Microsoft Says, Don't Press the F1 Key In XP

Posted by kdawson on from the any-key-but-that-one dept.

Ian Lamont writes "Microsoft has issued a security advisory warning users not to press the F1 key in Windows XP, owing to an unpatched bug in VBScript discovered by Polish researcher Maurycy Prodeus. The security advisory says that the vulnerability relates to the way VBScript interacts with Windows Help files when using Internet Explorer, and could be triggered by a user pressing the F1 key after visiting a malicious Web site using a specially crafted dialog box."

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  1. F1 in Internet Exploder by Icegryphon · · Score: -1, Troll

    Doesn't doing anything in Internet Explorer Cause it to lock?
    So how is pressing F1 any different?

  2. How about "don't press the power button" by DJ+DeFi · · Score: 0, Troll

    Just leave your windows box off, you'll be doing us all a favor...

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    You cannot warp because you are warp scrambled.
  3. my advice is more radical still by mihalis · · Score: -1, Troll

    Don't press any keys at all in XP.

  4. Re:Written from your XP partition? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Are you writing your post from the ubiquitous (pirated) XP partition that every Linux Zealot has?