Still hanging around on
Windows XP? Perfectly acceptable. Still using Internet Explorer to browse the world wide web? Just a wee bit less forgivable, but we understand that some of you simply can't get around it. If we just rung your bell, you might want to rip the F1 key right off of your keyboard (at least temporarily), as a recently discovered vulnerability in VBScript -- which can only bother Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 -- could allow malicious code to weasel its way right into your life with a single keystroke. As the story goes, some ill-willed web sites are encouraging users to smash the F1 key in order to access a Microsoft Help file, and when said key is depressed, "arbitrary code could be executed in the security context of the currently logged-on user."
Microsoft has promised to fully investigate and resolve the issue in due time, but 'til then, we'd highly suggest
avoiding your F1 key like the plague switching to Firefox.
posted March 2nd 2010 4:49PM
Chrome is the best.
Need I say more??
Good thing I prefer Chorme and Opera. Then again, I can't recall ever having used the F1 key.
@Phips I would use it all the time when I played WoW... Now though it seems to be missing me. Sorry F1 key... No touchy feely today...
It's the history eraser button you fools!
at least u have do deal with 10% of problems of vist and 2% of 7...i hate microsoft
The entire Canadian federal public service is mandated to use XP, and IE 7 at work