InDesign and Photoshop cause browser to open, multiple tabs appear

I wasn't sure what to use as a header for this, but I'll try to explain.
We use InDesign and Photoshop CS4 in my department daily. One of the people using PS and one using ID are having this same thing happen. They'll be using the applications and, all of a sudden, their browser will open and the main "help" page will open for whichever application they're using. Then very quickly, one tab after another will open, all being the main "help" page again. It will keep opening tabs until they go to the Task Manager and stop the process. The tabs open one after another very quickly (I said that already, didn't I?).
We're using Windows XP Pro, Service Pack 3 (I'm a Mac guy, sorry if my descriptions aren't correct), and CS4 Design Premium.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Lloyd

Well, that's what you get if you whack the F1 key over and over again...  Troubleshooting stuff like this is extremely annoying over in Windows-land, mostly because there are so many places where this bizarro behavior could be introduced. Perhaps these two people have the same keyboard-management software installed? And no one else in the office does?
It's displaying malware-like behavior, because that was one of the old Javascript tricks in the early days of Windows malware. But for some reason I suspect that it's not actually malware - because only Adobe apps are displaying this behavior, and because you'd want to direct your infectees to banner ads or porn sites or phisherman imitations of Facebook for harvesting passwords or something along those lines, if it was actually malware at work here.

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