{"id":72934,"date":"2010-03-03T07:42:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T07:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=72934"},"modified":"2010-03-03T07:42:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T07:42:08","slug":"windows-xp-users-do-not-press-f1-if-prompted-by-a-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/windows-xp-users-do-not-press-f1-if-prompted-by-a-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows XP users do not press F1 if prompted by a website"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>As Abhijit Kulkarni yesterday blogged about the .HLP vulnerability in Windows XP. See details below in his blog. I observed that Microsoft has rated this vulnerability as &#8220;Medium risk&#8221; as it needs user intervention. We are monitoring for any malicious exploit of this vulnerability being made by any malware.<\/p>\n<p>I see no reason why this vulnerability will not be exploited and hence recommend all our users to avoid pressing F1 in Windows XP when using the browser. If a website is showing a prompt or asking users to press F1 to perform certain activity, there may be chance that the website is infected by a malware exploiting this vulnerability.<\/p>\n<p>If anybody comes across such website which is asking to press F1 repeatedly, please report it to us on viruslab at quickheal dot com<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Abhijit Kulkarni yesterday blogged about the .HLP vulnerability in Windows XP. See details below in his blog. I observed that Microsoft has rated this vulnerability as &#8220;Medium risk&#8221; as it needs user intervention. We are monitoring for any malicious exploit of this vulnerability being made by any malware. I see no reason why this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}