This was sent to me via my local Linux Users Group mailing list and appears to be a serious flaw in WinXP;

From the article:

"A malicious Win-XP Help Center request can easily and silently delete the contents of any directory on your Windows machine, we've learned. Worse, MS has rolled the fix silently into SP1 without making a public announcement."

Read the whole thing at the Register.

Article from Microsoft

Sorry if this has been posted before, I tried a search but for some reason it kept falling over on me here.

Regards,

PP