This is not funny at all since Windows viruses often use these reserved
DOS devices to hide themselves, see the following:
http://www.seifried.org/security/advisories/kssa-010.html
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On 03/11/05 05:31 +0200, Aggelos wrote:
An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere named as
con.
This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable...
At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why
this happened!
Try it out yourself...
Not funny.
On Thursday 03 November 2005 04:27, Moffatt, Chris wrote:
It is a reserved word from the DOS days (like prn)
Now that is funny - prn is where the texting generation will expect to store
their porn.
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--On Wednesday, November 02, 2005 21:17:27 -0700 Moffatt, Chris
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It is a reserved word from the DOS days (like prn) I think it stands
for console
Actually, you can't create a folder named:
CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7,
COM8,
On 3/11/2005 2:31 PM, Aggelos wrote:
An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere named as
con.
This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable...
At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why
this happened!
I find it hard no one at Microsoft could
It is a reserved word from the DOS days (like prn) I think it stands for
console
Actually, you can't create a folder named:
CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8,
COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9
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On 11/3/05, Aggelos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere named as
con.
This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable...
At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why
this happened!
Try it out yourself...
An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere named as
con.
This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable...
At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why
this happened!
Try it out yourself...
It's confirmed that it is correct on Windows XP with
An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere named
as
con.
This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable...
At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer
why
this happened!
Try it out yourself...
It's confirmed that it is correct on
Not surprising. Gates and Microsoft didn't develop DOS. They bought
it.
On Nov 2, 2005, at 20:27, Moffatt, Chris wrote:
It is a reserved word from the DOS days (like prn) I think it
stands for
console
Actually, you can't create a folder named:
CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2,
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