Comments on: Teen charged in AOL hacking

A 17-year-old New Yorker is getting a different kind of education. One of hard knocks.

[kylechicago]

Proving ONCE AGAIN that AOL is crap

I remember back in '95 that there was a hack called AOL4Free. It
did exactly as the name says:create and use AOL accounts for
free.And with a little more hacker knowledge,one could also obtain
passwords and account info from other (legit)customers. It took
almost a year before AOL caught on to the whole thing. Now,12
years later and they still can't get thier act together!?! Jesus H...

[RicknMarcia]

AOL4FREE is a trojan... sorta

This is part hoax, part reality. First, there is a Macintosh program named aol4free (note, it does not carry the filename aol4free.com)Second, there is hoax generated that stated aol4free deleted files on users hard drives. Finally, there is a Trojan by the same name, which has been dubbed A4F-Spoof by the antivirus vendors to avoid confusion. (The assumption is that hoax was a spin-off of the Mac program, and the Trojan a spin-off of the hoax). In any event, hoax messages are text email only, whereas any attached executable has the potential to be infected. The Trojan, As4-Spoof, runs the DOS DELTREE command in to delete all files from a user's system.

[RicknMarcia]

aol4free is a hoax

This is part hoax, part reality. First, there is a Macintosh program named aol4free (note, it does not carry the filename aol4free.com)Second, there is hoax generated that stated aol4free deleted files on users hard drives. Finally, there is a Trojan by the same name, which has been dubbed A4F-Spoof by the antivirus vendors to avoid confusion. (The assumption is that hoax was a spin-off of the Mac program, and the Trojan a spin-off of the hoax). In any event, hoax messages are text email only, whereas any attached executable has the potential to be infected. The Trojan, As4-Spoof, runs the DOS DELTREE command in to delete all files from a user's system.