I wouldn't want to mess with outdated software that communicates over a network, especially not from AOL given their record with AOL Instant Messenger. Did you

I wouldn't want to mess with outdated software that communicates over a network, especially not from AOL given their record with AOL Instant Messenger. Did you know that the original way that AOL checked that you were using a genuine version of AIM was to send a buffer overflow attack to you? It would then execute some code that checked process memory for signs that it was the genuine AIM executable.