AIM Dangers and Solutions: Cracking, Punting, etc

[ys8er2323]

quote:Originally posted by madmax4life

most likely no. but if you use aol, and your screenname gets hacked on it automatically locks your account till you call them. this is very smart thing for aol to do!

yea I fell for one of those scams when I had aol, Well at the time I didn't know AOL will never ask for a password. But me being dumb, just entered it on a page which looked EXACTLY like the aol homepage. After I entered it nothing happened. So I searched google and it said it was a passworld stealing gimmic. I tried to logon the next day to find out on the logon screen it said my account has been locked. I had to call up AOL to get it unlocked. They told me the hacker had sent 8,000 porn emails out to other aol users. Soon as I got my account back I changed my password and a week later got rid of aol.

[Hironobu]

Another, possibly more fitting (well, to me at least) solution to the mass warning problem would be to show the "accept dialouge" for people not on your buddy list.

One of my roommates and a friend raped another roommate's SN while he had his away message up by mass warning like this, but it took a coordinated effort amongst us... getting him up to 100% took a while too. So, we decided to create a bunch of different SNs and just log on each of those to warn him.

But since he had the accept dialouge window pop up, he never responded with his away message, so we couldn't warn him. So, if you trust the majority of the people on your buddylist, then this would probably be a better way to do this instead of the profile-only away message, well imo.

[masteryoda77]

I found out that someone in my list had me blocked and when I asked her why would she do that...she said that she didnt do it but she had computer problems.
In her words her "computer did it"...but she also said she was aware of it and I wasnt the only one blocked.
I know she sometimes has problems with her computer but I never heard of something like users can be blocked without any "human assistance"...is it possible to crack AIM and block people from the list?
I do believe she blocked me for some reason and didnt wanna say why. At least if I said or did something annoying maybe Id understand but its not the case so thats why I'm not 100% sure.
So if anyone has any idea if this would even be possible, just let me know.

[CerJam]

AOL users will use programs that will allow them to take total control of chats. They have the ability to kick or ban people, and the programs made often feature the auto kick ability, so everytime you join you will be immediatlly kicked.

first off id like to point out you dont need to use a program to "take total control" over a chatroom and the most used programz for this are
uccom by unfair
room op version 2 by bread
automation
qwiks
and powertoolz(have to buy it for the owning toolz to work)

and on the password cracking...most public crackerz are dead..so the chances of getting cracked is real slim

and basicly all warning exploitz are dead tht I know of

grouping still workz and some details about that ive leared if your grouping a sn the only emails that will come back almost instatly is AOL and hotmail...if itz registerd under a yahoo email it will take about a day lol ( I waz grouping my own sn's) and most fake @**** will come back almost instalty

aim trojans well....almost all of them are picked up by virus scannerz besides the one built by moo2 which he sold...so like...thtz the only one to worry about tht I know of but itz real slim chances youll meet someone with that because it had copy protection

punting well...turn off addins and youll be fine most of the time...you can still be crached by LOTZ of IM's like for example someone tryign to punt you with AIMinvader....alot of the time that will work but if someone tries punting you with twister it wont ^_^


phisiing..... ummm dont give your f'in password to anyone and ull be fine lol


and the chat host thingy....thatz dead aol patched it a week ago...now you have to be using a mac sn thtz to long.. like for example I use

"a s d f g h j k l k j h g f d s d 2@mac.com" < thtz unbanable as where "host sadhjaskjash@mac.com" isnt this includes all teh restricted prefixes which include "cisct fsct host" and a few more tht I dont remeber


Copy Cat,ip stealers and fake login are basicly dead lol, but it is possible to like in a program for changing passwordz tht you cant see the adress it could be a PWS so like...if you need a Password changer use "cerjamz pwc" or PWC which is availbe on my site.....

thtz a update on all them thingz

-CerJam

[Cronus]

Just a note, away message warning is no longer an issue, so it should probably be removed from the list.

[Someguy03]

Can you explain how its not longer an issue?

[Cronus]

Certainly
In June, AOL changed many of the server-side rules governing AIM (same stuff that took DoorManBot down for a month). One of the items was with warnings. In order to warn somebody (in a short conversation), they must be the person who started the conversation. Therefore, if you send a message to somebody who is away, even if they respond via away message, you still started the conversation, so you cannot warn them. Test it out and see for yourself. Personally, I think it was a great change, as it got rid of most warning abuse.

[123123]

yea I hate those gay program

i have been aimboted by alot of people

wat should I do?

[Pimpskater]

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[JerkyChew]

quote:Originally posted by CoxsackieVirus

AOL is mostly for the people like Windows XP. Windows XP can be hacked easly. Theres no use for a password at startup. Theres a way to hack into it and I will not be telling. Its extreamly complicated and dangereouse to the computer. You should only do it if you lock yourself out of the computer.

No, it's not complicated, and no, it's not all that dangerous. The thing is, you have to be sitting at the machine to do it. I use it all the time at work.