UPDATE
In a response e-mailed to
InformationWeek, an AOL spokesman said its technicians are working on the problem.
"The safety and security of AIM users is of utmost importance to us," she wrote. "To that end, we quickly take the necessary steps to block malicious content from reaching our users. We have addressed the issues that Core Security has brought to us on the server side. We are comfortable with the server side fixes we have in place, but we are also working on a client fix."