Another Undocumented Feature

[mick at pauldotcom.com (Michael Douglas)]

Yep it was right up there with the ping of death "goodness".

So while security has a long way to go on every OS, it's nice to see
that forward progress* is being made.

- Mick

* Though sometimes it really feels like two steps forward three steps back!  ;-P

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:22 AM, Pat<nutjob.ie at gmail.com> wrote:
> This should be fixed for a while now
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> Anyone remember the CON CON bug from 98/95
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> if you told a machine to open c:\con\con\anything.fil it would blue screen
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> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Robin Wood <dninja at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2009/7/19 Dimitrios Kapsalis <dimitrios at gmail.com>:
> > > My XP is completely patched and it created a NULL folder.
> >
> > Just read the article, it is NUL, not NULL. I can't create NUL.
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> > > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Robin Wood <dninja at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > 2009/7/19 Tom Brennan - Personal <jinxpuppy at gmail.com>:
> > > > > right click the windows desktop and create a folder named:
> > > > >
> > > > > CON or PRN or NULL
> > > > >
> > > > > <smirk>
> > > >
> > > > NULL works ok in a completely unpatched XP, the other two names are
> > > > ignored.
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