Looks like Microsoft screwed up again...

[Parker]

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/microso...o-avoid-f1-key/

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Microsoft tells IE faithful on Windows XP to avoid F1 key

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.

Via: Switched
Source: Microsoft
Citation: Engadget.com

[krissel]

Sad.  

[Xairbusdriver]

I think the "key" they should avoid is labeled "Start!" or does XP not require that (to also "stop")? What do you expect from a GUI that uses the "Start" button to stop?!

I may be showing my age and lack of Windows experience. Microsoft probably corrected that snafu in Vista when they replaced the "Start" button with "Stop"...still, pressing "Stop" to start doing something is still strange, to me... but not as strange as me!