{"id":25285,"date":"2010-03-04T14:29:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T14:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/03\/04\/windows-users-do-not-press-jus\/"},"modified":"2010-03-04T14:29:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T14:29:35","slug":"windows-users-do-not-press-jus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/04\/windows-users-do-not-press-jus\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Users: Do Not Press Just Any Key!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, there is a strange security bug in Windows XP whereby some web sites will ask you to press the F1 Key, and if you do, you are screwed.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The vulnerability exists in the way that VBScript interacts with Windows Help files when using Internet Explorer,&#8221; read the advisory. &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9164038\/Microsoft_Don_t_press_F1_key_in_Windows_XP\">details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, there is a strange security bug in Windows XP whereby some web sites will ask you to press the F1 Key, and if you do, you are screwed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6zP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}