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 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 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.....

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.....

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.....

Date 1996Founded UnknownSubmitted By HypahSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive Typing ]D or ]F on Mac AOL 2.7 or older would unlock null chars, including the return char, allowing you to fake others’ chat and what not. AOL slowly fixed this; as time passed, less and less manips worked. At the end, you could only send (return)l and (return)t right before they fixed it.