Warn Exploit Information?

[digea]

I wanna know if anyone else is experienceing the new AIM warn exploit - to where anyone can warn you - rather ur buddylist only or not .. its not a cool thing to do for one - but I have been gettign warned out of the ass lol ;D if anyone has any information on how to prevent this - please let me know

[Someguy03]

Here are the two new exploits:

1. One uses a buddy icon, remove yours to a prevent people from using it on you
2. One warns you while your away, and to my knowledge theres no way to avoid it while your away.

[digea]

Well I appericiate it ;] I heard that they fixed it so i hope it dont do it again ;] thank you so much

[mrblonde608]

If your talking about the person warning you with the Auto Response, then all you have to do is change it so that it is only viewed in your profile.

Under the Away Message part of Preferences.

[Someguy03]

Yes, that exploit people were using on you has been patched. Apparently, people using that new aol Love.com service got a new screename. It's similar to the @Mac.com screenames, except you get @love.com instead. When people with the @love.com screenames IMed you, and you didn't also have a @love.com screename, your screename would give an auto response to the person with the @love.com screename, saying you werent using the service. This is the same thing as the away message auto response, except you didn't have to be away.

Since you were auto responding about not using the @love.com service, you were basically sending them an IM. Thus, tricking the AIM service into thinking you said something, allowing the person with the @love.com screename to warn you as much as needed. This has been patched, so not worries =)

[f0rbez]

about that @love.com thing.. how do you create screen names like that?