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'AOHack programs were add-on programs to America Online that violated their Terms of Service, performed illegal activities, and disrupted the service. These programs were sometimes referred to as Progz or Proggiez.

These programs, like AOHell (the first), were normally made in Visual Basic versions 3.0 and 4.0. Rare programs that were not distributed widely were made in Delphi or C . The Visual Basic AOHack programs often would use stolen code from other AOHack programs. The new programs would be only slightly modified by their creator.

These programmers largely were used to distribute pirated software, called warez, to scroll macros, and to phish for passwords and credit card numbers. They had generally the same features as AOHell, such as scrolling chat rooms, and [leet] text conversion.

Programs

NOTE: Programs written for 32bit AOL are not truly Old School

American Dragonball Online by Mufonix

ANUBiS

AOL4Free

* Created by Nicholas Ryan, also known as Happy Hardcore. This program patched the AOL software for Macintosh computers to allow users to use AOL free of charge. Ryan later pleaded guilty to computer fraud as a result of his online activity, which included gaining access to some of the highest level accounts on AOL including Steve Case's personal AOL account.

AOBlaze (by Reb)

AOBomber by Bomber

AoCrisis

AODuhG

AOHell By Da Chronic.

*This was the first program of this type that was widely distributed throughout AOL.

AOKnight (by WeSTCoR)

AoL Insanity by Kirby 10/4

AOMi§C by Mi§C BoSS

AoNin98 Server

AoPussy

AORaper by Mootar and Rash

ARK's FAC - this was by far the most used and effective fake account creator

BaLLa'z Phisher

Blizzard MMer/Server

CarnaGe 32 by J00p!

ChatOnly (A plugin that used text commands in chat rooms, like a command line.)

Chlorine 2.3 by 420 aka cyx aka anger

ChocolateX (by Twix from thend)

CoRRuPTioN (by pizza)

Crusade (by StormKa0s)

da 1 punt (by timex)

FBI (By Nautica)

Descent Final by Pott

Entity Server

Fate Ultra, Fate-X as well as Zero, 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, etc. (by MaGus & FuNGii)

FiRe TooLz 1.1 and 3.0 by Rj2

Gothic Nightmares by Masta

Green Final MMer

Guide Server

Drug feins²·° phish tank by meca

*Drug feins ²·° was a program facilitating the storage of AOL account information, often purloined.

FaKe MaKer v1.0 - v3.0

* This was the very first Macintosh program made for AOL that was SOLEY written to create fake credit card accounts and had builtin pregenerated cc numbers. This program was written and released by Realmz also lesser known as Mcdog in 1995 in which he distributed three different versions. Each program contained over 1,000 fake accounts that could be created. Accounts consisted of credit card prefixes like the commonly used 40191 which only lasted a few days to rare working prefixes that could last up to 3 months. Each version became obsolete after a majority of the accounts were created.

Half Baked (by Livid)

HaVoK Final (by HaVoK)

HaVoK Platinum (by HaVoK)

Heaven 1.0 (by ToniC & nolmt)

HeLLFiRE MM

IcedFire (by Firecrypts and Shadow)

ICP Punter

iD4 by VeSa

inspire (by 420 AKA cyx, anger)

JuicyPhisher (by MBZoso)

Po2 Phisher Gøld by Sway

Indigo MMer by Corsair

Krylon Cans (by krylon)

Lucifer-X (by NailZ)

MadCow & SuperMadCow, SuperMadCow Final (by HoSS)

MaGeNTa (By ReDxKiNG)

Men in Black (by TFish from nek)

Menace 2 AOL

Methodus

Mercury by -CoM-

Millennium 7 MMer/Server

Muder1 (by ecoli)

ARiSE MMer [turbo] (by meca)

MiRaGe (By zZz)

Napalm Punter

No Limit Punter

Outbreak by Kill and Stealth

* v1 - Kill; v2 - Kill and MeLT; v3 & Gold - Kill and Stealth; turbo - Kill and Water

Pepsi v2, v3, v4

PondScum (by pizza)

Purge (by Moxie)

PF OH Scroller (By KiRBY)

Rampage Toolz (by Oogle).

Ryno's Tools (by RynoDBones)

Scream Server Final (by bmxer)

SoNiC BooM by TeRRoR

SpeeD DeMoN By SKi

*First program to use flash mail mass mailing

Soylent Green Warez Server Final (by elroy)

Stealth's PWSD

tame clone - Used To Bomb Chat Rooms With Many Different Screen Names at Once, Sometimes Crashing AIM Clients with Certain Programming Flaws

tos 1.1 (by pizza)

Turbo IceDrop MMer

Typhoon by CooLzie

TwiSt 1IM Error (By MiZi of Syndrome)

Twisted Rose

Totalled (By Tig)

Uranium (by PaCmAn)

WaaS by SlaYer

We Are All SiNNeRz (By Da SLaYeR)

WoRmS 1IM Punter

Wonder Years (by RL StYlE)

Scrambler (by TyR)

i2 cracker (by hiwind)

Silicon Cracker (by 511)

Super Mad Cow & Short Circuit Punter (by HoSS)

Infiniti MMer (by hiwind)

Tetro PWC by Trinok (First Ever TCP/IP "Winsock" "PWC" ever made)

WhiteHell by White

* WhiteHell innovated a lot of one click features within Macintosh AOHack programs. White's ingenuity with the oneclick programming language gave him the ability to write scripts for one click that could now perform as complex of operations as the Visual Basic based programs for PCs.

WinCrack (a Winsock AOL Cracker by ToniC)

Uccom - Still In Use Widely Throughout Many Chat Rooms, To Own(Or Control) Chat Rooms Allowing A Oped User To Ban Or Kick A User From A Chat Room, Since Uccom Was First Released Many Modifications were Developed To Keep Up With AOL, Currently Uccom Acts As A Proxy Between The Internet And AOL Which The Program Then Can Join and Take Ownership of a room then go into a standalone mode where the AOL Client is Not Needed.

Vertigo TOSer (by thret)

X-Zone

AOTOSer programs were AOHack programs designed to mainipulate AOL Terms of Service (TOS). TOSer programs would utilize multiple phished or brute force hacked screen names. Once loaded the TOSer would automatically sign on and off the AOL service sending out multiple terms of service violation reports to AOL, thus creating a set of realistic violations (multiple TOS reports), the result was after a number of requests, AOL would cancel the target victims account. This practice was also used by members of a different AOL hacking groups to disrupt or shut down opposing competition.

With the eventual upgrades to the main AOL software, going from the simple AOL 2.5 to the now modern 9.0, AOL has been able to stay further ahead than the AOHack programmers. The "warez" rooms of the mid to late 1990s have all but vanished, and the AOHack programs have been relegated to the history of AOL. AOL has also moved away from its proprietary RAINMAN software and begun to focus more on the World Wide Web. Although the hack and warez scene somehow held on megerely throughout the late 1990's on AOL, many people who were considered the pioneers of AOL Hacking had long since left to IRC after the TOS raids of 96' which ended up shutting down hundreds of fake accounts, permanently banning certain private rooms, and an enforcement of real time credit card and checking account verfication which signaled the beginning of the end. Days of hacking AOL and being part of an underground scene and culture were to never be the same. AOL had been left to the kids who still wanted to trade files, and to the people who have no idea how to use their computer.

Associated Private Rooms

During the period of increased popularity surrounding these programs, many private rooms on the AOL service were established and inhabited by program traders, and, in many cases, the programmers themselves. These rooms served many purposes and often became think tanks for new features in future programs.

Some of the rooms were:

Freewarez

Macwarez

Warez

External links

History of AOL Warez A brief overview of the AOL scene from the early 1990s to 2003.

"Tha EaSt CoAsT ProGGiN ZoNe" <!-- don't blame me, I didn't make them call themselves that ... -->A long list of AOL "proggies" from the early scene.

Wired News AOL4Free culprit tells his tale.

See also

Phishing

AOL

Warez

3char

Inside-AOL.com