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AOL IM 'Away' Message Security Hole Found

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the oops-they-did-it-again dept.

thedude13 writes " Infoworld is running a story about a major security hole in AOL ® Instant Messenger(TM) and how it handles away messages. AIM is vulnerable to a buffer overflow via the auto-response away message mechanism. Yet another reason to switch to, IMHO, a better client such as gaim."

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  1. Re:Registry Fix by Awptimus+Prime · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Eh, Trillian is shareware trash for newbies who don't know any better.

    Paying someone for a client to access a free service seems about as silly as paying for IE or Netscape.

    Visit SourceForge and download GAIM or one of the many open source IM solutions.