Saturday, March 27, 2010

F1 Key – HELP OR HACKING key?

Nowdays, computers are on great demand which has the keyboards attached with them as the input terminal. Every keyboard has combination of various keys like alphanumeric keys, all English charaters, numeric keys, punctuation keys, arrow keys etc. These all are used as input from the user and hence called the ‘Input Keys’. When any user presses such a key, the character corresponding to individual key gets displayed on the monitor. But have you ever thought there are other keys on the same keyboard, which perform some function attached with them. Such types of special keys are called ‘Function Keys’. There are various Functional Keys labeled as F1 – F12 etc.
F1 key gradually became universally associated with Help in most early Windows programs. To this day, Microsoft Office programs and many other applications on internet running in Windows list F1 as the key for Help in the Help menu.
Do you know that F1 key is also used for hacking? when we press F1 key on any of the running application for the instant help, it automatically executes the inbuilt function Winhelp of Windows, which will help you throughout that program. But, if you open this Winhelp file of Windows in simple text editor like notepad, then using this, we can view its code that runs on execution of F1 key. This opened code now can easily be copied, changed and edited using simple operations of cut, copy and paste.
Now, if anyone has a hackable code in any language say java, then one can copy or change that code into this notepad file, and can save that code. Now when any new user uses the computer and for any help in any application, presses the F1 key, the code behind the key will be executed. Thus, this new code will work like hacking function and can hack any computer.

No comments:

Post a Comment