this is a very old bug, i believe that the term for it is "punting" dunno though, there are other bugs, ill elaborate on what you said aol supports PARTIAL html, its like win95's implementation of tcp/ip it only supports parts of it there are several exploits for this, rather then include source, which would be useless for something that only requires 1 line to be typed, i will explain how to crash through instant messeges, send an instant message with the following text "<a1><pre><a1><a1>" you can send a few of these, this will freeze aol, causing either a gpf, or reboot, this is because aol is recieving html, which it recognizes, but cannot decide what to do with it to crash through mail, simply send a letter filled with "<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<" this crashes aol, it does this because of the way aol handles html imagine that each < is a for loop, so every time there is a new <, thats another nested for loop, this jumps cpu utilization to 100% i believe -p00h Invisi wrote: > Well.. I thought this was something that some of you might get a kick > out of... as well as informative. I also havent seen this on any other > sites. here's the stuff... > > Tested on: AOL3.0 16-bit Windows, AOL3.0 32-bit Windows, AOL4.0 Windows > > Problem: > AOL's Instant message's uses HTML. This enables there customers to > change font sizes, colors, backgrounds, to suite there tastes. Well > here is where the bug comes into play. > All you simply have to do is send someone who is useing a AOL version, > that uses the <font> tagg, a instant message of > <font = > 9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999> > A AOL instant message has to be below a certain character size that can > fit in one message. This goes beyond the valid size, as well as being a > invalid parameter for <font>. It will cause your AOL software to freak > out, and a GPF will occur. If your able to stick more 9's in there, > then please do. > > Fix: > Convert back to a older version of AOL for Windows, like 2.5 or before. > Or, simply reject any Instant Messages by useing the $IM_OFF command. > Since Instant Messages are a big part of AOL, most people keep there > Instant Messages turned on. > > - Invisible
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