Re: AOL IM 4.7 d0s 0-Day

From: Matthew Sachs (matthewgat_private)
Date: Wed Oct 03 2001 - 03:33:36 PDT

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On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 09:38:25PM -0500, Marukka wrote:
> I tried sending 
> "<!--.<!--.<!--.<!--.<!--.<!--.<!--.<!--.<!--.<!--.<!--.<!--.<!--.<!--.<!--.
[...]
> 10 times in a row with Netscape 6.1 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US;
> rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 and afterwards whenever I would try
> to send a im to another client it would say "Send failed for some reason.".
> Then my friend im'ed me back saying he was still online and once again I was
> able to IM again. Quite strange.

10 isn't enough.  It takes much more then that.  Also, I don't know
about Netscape, but it looks like you can't send the message with
WinAIM; it translates < to &lt;
	--Matt

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