well according to the snippets provided here MS says the following:

# Several special file names are reserved by the system and cannot be used for files or folders:
# CON, AUX, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, PRN, NUL

Now I know for a /fact/ that you can create directories named AUX COM1 COM2 etc on a win2k box using POSIX. I have seen it done, and I have had to remove them from a compromised box in the past. So that would mean the same technique can be used to create a CON dir too.

If I have time later today I'll tag one of our internal test boxes and create a CON dir using the methods that most taggers use.


*EDIT*

Followed a link to this thread from here and responded before I noticed the date of last response. Sorry, but my offer still stands if I have time.