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Don’t Press F1 in Windows XP

March 3rd, 2010
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Apparently there is a newly discovered vulnerability in windows XP. If a website asks you to press F1 do not do this. Hackers have discovered a way to execute code on the user’s machine by feeding users malicious code disguised as a Windows help file. It affects both Internet Explorer 7 and 8.

If a malicious Web site displayed a specially crafted dialog box and a user pressed the F1 key, arbitrary code could be executed in the security context of the currently logged-on user.

iSEC Security Advisory

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Roberto Sebestyen

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