Freezing Color Profiles

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.....
CL Pin Cracking

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.....
AIM Punt String

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.
Quick Checkout Loophole

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.....
DED Screen Names Regular

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......
Mac “as” token Exploit (Indented Screen Names)

Date Early 2000Founded HypahSubmitted By O0O and HypahSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive Using the same language code principles he discovered when finding the Aa token exploit, Hypah was able to figure out a way to make 2 character indented screen names. Although, at first Hypah figured out you could hijack AIM screen names doing this. During the account creation proccess the as token, which sets your screen name, did not check.....
Indented Screen Names on the PC

Date November 2000Founded Language code atom discovered by BMBSubmitted By O0OSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive BMB was able to port the “as” token exploit over to the PC by finding an atom which set the language code. The atom was uni_next_atom_typed. Placed within an FDO script this allowed PCers to make indented screen names and hijack AIM accounts.
Signing onto Suspended AIM Names

Date Date: Fall 2000Founded UnknownSubmitted By GLSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive Occasionaly the certain parts of the AIM server would go down which allowed suspended AIMs to be signed onto. An easy way to tell if the server was down was to select the “Update email” option on the AIM client. If it came back “unknown” then it would be possible to sign onto any suspended AIM that you had the.....
Restricted Suffix Screen Names

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.....
Price Index #P exploit (CL/OH Billing Update)

Date Summer 2000Founded Cam0Submitted By Cam0 with additional information from O0OSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive Updated 2.4.2001 The trick was done similar to an earlier exploit with the Ra token found by Jay. A pricing plan change could be submitted for any Price Index including index 77(CL account) and 0(OH/Internal). Although setting your PI to 0 would not upgrade your account to the viewrule status of a OH/Internal, it would still.....
The “Aa” Token Platform Trick

Date Early 2000Founded HypahSubmitted By O0OSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive Using a scanner program Hypah looked through all the various language codes searching for any wierd responses. Using this scanner he was able to find several language codes, one of them 1221, which would send a message using the Aa token to a chat room. The message would come from online host and say. OnlineHost: has sent a message that your.....