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

Ted

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>Subject: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!
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>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...
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