Windows Forbidden File Names

Usefull in webserver and path traversal testing.

MS recommends avoiding these names followed immediately by an extension; for example, NUL.txt is not recommended.

CON
PRN
AUX 
NUL 
COM1 
COM2 
COM3 
COM4 
COM5 
COM6 
COM7 
COM8 
COM9 
LPT1 
LPT2 
LPT3 
LPT4 
LPT5 
LPT6 
LPT7
LPT8
LPT9 

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