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<[email protected]> wrote: > This should be fixed for a while now > > Anyone remember the CON CON bug from 98/95 > > if you told a machine to open c:\con\con\anything.fil it would blue screen > > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Robin Wood <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 2009/7/19 Dimitrios Kapsalis <[email protected]>: >> > 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. >> >> > >> > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Robin Wood <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> 2009/7/19 Tom Brennan - Personal <[email protected]>: >> >> > 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. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Pauldotcom mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom >> >> Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Pauldotcom mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom >> > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> Pauldotcom mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom >> Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com > _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
