AOL/AIM Exploits

Date November 1998Founded O0OSubmitted By O0OSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive In late 1998, AOL introduced a new feature which allowed more than one screen name to be a Master sn with account creation/deletion rights. You can make one of these sub-account master sn’s a “ded” sn by signing onto it and going to kw: Names. Once there, using FDO, you can edit the delete sn listbox and put in the current.....

Date Summer 1998Founded UnknownSubmitted By GLSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive The AIM registration process allowed 2 char screen names to be created along with indented screen names. Indents could be over the 2 character limit present in the recent indent exploit. Several of these screen names with 3 or more spaces indented still exist today along with several of the 2 char AIM’s made using this hole.

Date January 1998Founded Slushie and UaertSubmitted By O0OSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive Slushie and Uaert found that the Rw token was not viewruled nor rostered. By sending the Rw token and an arg such as 56-2923 you could pull up the Examine Object Info for the token. EOI is used mainly in conjunction with Rainman and was valuable because it gave information on who created the object, which tokens linked to.....

Date 1998Founded unknownSubmitted By GLSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive By going to kw:names and typing “blahblahAO” and pressing enter, it will return something like “blahblahAO19837″ and “AO1″ is a restricted prefix. You could also make TO5 in the same manner.

Date 2000Founded UnknownSubmitted By PHATSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive Color and elite profiles are still very popular today, almost every teenager with AOL has “elite” colors in their profile. Color profiles started out as normal HTML codes used in profiles for font formatting and background color, etc. Then, AOL saw the danger these “harmless” profile codes presented when someone came up with the freezing profile code. AOL killed most of the.....

Date 2000Founded unknownSubmitted By Contributed By: PHAT Addition:ScSaSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive The Con/Con punt is actually a Windows exploit that can done through AOL. It only affects users in chatrooms with their sounds turned on. To do it, you simply sent “{S /con/con” to the chat and everyone with their sounds turned on will get a “blue screen” error. However, AOL did not like this punt because grandma and newbies.....

Date July 2000Founded Chris, Nore and Hyrdro – Updated 2.8.01Submitted By Contributed By: Tau Correction: Nore and HydroSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive This exploit allowed CL pin numbers to be cracked via an AOL web site. Once the pin number was cracked the people involved could call AOL and have the password reset. Also, after entering the correct pin number the billing information on the accounts could be changed. Chris, the.....

Date 2000Founded Rikky?Submitted By Tau and Pure (who submitted similar information)Source AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive Dead, aka “ded”, screen names are screen names that can be accessed even though they technically belong to no account. The drawbacks are that you cannot send mail from them and that it takes a few steps to do. Here you will learn how to do it in 3 easy steps. No special tools are required......

Date Late 2000Founded TauSubmitted By TauSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive “AOL Quick Checkout allows you to store credit card and shipping information at a secure site on AOL’s computers. That way, when you’re shopping at merchants that offer AOL Quick Checkout, you can checkout quickly and safely without having to manually enter your payment and shipping information each time,” according to the Help section at AOL Quick Checkout. While scanning tokens.....

Date 2000Founded unknownSubmitted By PHATSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive AIMers were able to be punted offline with ease. The trick was simple enough. Send the AIM victim an Instant Message with the message &.#770;. The user was immediately punted from AIM and often even had to restart. The string &.#771; turned their screen fuzzy. The release of AIM 4.1? fixed this punt method.

Date December 10, 2000Founded EvergraceSubmitted By O0O and rogersSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive AOL added a new feature to the kw: Names sub-account creation proccess. If a screen name you wanted was unavailable a form would come up asking you to enter three words and then AOL would automatically make an SN for you based on these three words. The n* token which ran this process did not have a restricted.....