Creating Indented and 2 char AIM sns

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.
Examine Object Info(EOI) from any AOL account

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.....
Make AO1 and TO5 Restricted Screen Names

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.
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.....
Chat Con/Con Punt

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.....
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.....
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.
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.....
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.....
PC Client Cloning

Date 1997 it could be done using AOL 3.0 32-bit and later using 4.0 and 2.5Founded VariousSubmitted By TauSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive Cloning, as it has come to be called, is the process of signing onto more than one screen name simultaneously on the same computer. There are however two restrictions that you should be aware about before beginning. First, you have to use whatever America Online version you are currently.....
Accessing An Uploaded File Without It Being Released

Date 1997Founded HypahSubmitted By HypahSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive The “lib trick” was where you’d find the most recent mF token, then upload a file and through a very little scanning, could access that file with the token. It still works, but when it was new, you could access it by URL as well. AOL actually fixed the URL access because I was sending links to their german porn to american.....