rm craziness

I was trying to delete some files on Solaris using the rm command.
The file names were something like: "-HqFbc3YQ0wQYhH7u16veP7_BBC_6_090540.xml"
These files were generated by a program using random numbers.

Now no matter what I tried, rm always returned with an error for files starting with a - (minus sign)
I found the solution here.

Snippet:
To remove a file whose name begins with a dash ( - ) character, refer to the file with the following syntax:
rm ./-filename
Using the redundant ./ directory information prevents the dash from occurring at the beginning of the filename, and being interpreted as an option of the rm command.