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ok guys I know of a few other sites that are still running the smilies. not to point fingers, cause I know aol has suites scowering the net for all the stuff they don’t like. But to be brutally honest big blue ball has gotten way too much sh*t from them of recent. So here are some sites. I know http://www.awaybox.comis still doing the whole smilie thing, I think http://www.aimfilez.com had one, I have gone and preservered a copy on my college storage, along with a message for aol http://portfolio.iu.edu/jopricha/smilies.html
and if you need any help feel free to email me.
ps sorry for the slow times, I put it on my college site not mine for bandwidth purposes, (they don’t track it) and it is a huge picture so please be patient. 🙂There was also a site, realphx.com, that had hired a programmer to make an advertising campaign for the site, which btw sells an anti adware program.
What the site did when you visited it was use the exploit, which uses the html applications and the tags together in a fashion to trick the page into letting the application download without actually asking permissions, and then after it had the malicious program running it would make, dl, or somehow put a small program in your c: directory and add it to the registry so it was run everytime the computer was.
This little program would make ads popup, replace your profile with a link to the site, reset your homepage to the site, and possibly more, but all this time creating such havok also selling a program to get rid of it all for only $8.75 I think.:mad:
Needless to say the site has since put disclaimers and appologies on their site, since it propogated quite fast through the internet via profiles and maybe other forms of linking. 😉
