Although judging from your post, you may have already read this, I thought some others may not have seen it... You can read more about the AOL protocol here: http://www.aol-files.com/misc/theaolprotocol.wri For Visual Basic example of how to sign on get this: http://programming.aol-files.com/vb/source/aolwinsock.zip Thanks for not succumbing to the powers that be and keeping silent. --- Walt Moorhouse Network Administrator -----Original Message----- From: Matt Conover [mailto:shok@dataforce.net] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 4:19 AM To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com Subject: w00w00 on AOL Instant Messenger (serious vulnerability) ================================= AOL Instant Messenger advisory w00w00! http://www.w00w00.org ================================= Author: Matt Conover (shok@dataforce.net) Contributors: nocarrier, napster, and w00w00 collectively ...