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 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 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 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 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 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.....

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.....

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.....

Date 1997Founded UnknownSubmitted By CJSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive This ‘exploit’ allowed users to send completely blank IMs, which also removed the screen name of the sender from the IM window. This trick was used by various punter programs so that you could not copy/paste any screen name from the IM window to make a report to CAT. To do this, you needed to send an IM with just (A HREF).....