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.

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.

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.....

Sending Blank IMs


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).....