AOL Blocks ICQ Worm
Users don't need to apply a patch, company says.
Stacy Cowley,
IDG News Service
Wednesday, February 25, 2004

America Online has taken steps to stop the spread of a worm that began attacking ICQ instant messaging users this week.

AOL Tests New Spam-Blockers
If widely adopted, protocol could identify, halt e-mail using spoofed addresses.
Paul Roberts,
IDG News Service

With its subscribers deluged by unsolicited commercial e-mail, Internet service provider America Online is trying new technology to crack down on one common spammer tool: forged sender addresses, which spammers and virus-writers use to bypass blacklists and trick recipients.

AOL To Combat Internet Spyware
By David Ho

The AOL software would automatically scan users' computers weekly to identify spyware programs and assign each a threat level, said AOL spokesman Andrew Weinstein. The software will give people the option of removing spyware.

By Robert Lemos
May 5, 2003

Two serious flaws in America Online's ICQ software could allow an online attacker to take control of a person's PC, a Boston security firm warned in an advisory released Monday. Core Security Technologies described the vulnerabilities in an advisory released to several public security lists. While the company found a total of six flaws, it said only two have serious implications because they could allow an attacker to run code on the victim's computer

Wed April 30, 2003

NEW YORK (Reuters) - America Online launched a new virus protection service for its members on Wednesday, marking the latest paid service from the Internet division of AOL Time Warner Inc.AOL.N as it tries to turn itself around.

The company's new management team said in December it would unveil a series of paid services as part of its effort to contend with a slump in dial-up subscribers and advertising. AOL said its new virus protection service, developed with the McAfee Security Consumer unit of Network Associates Inc.NET.N , helps guard against known viruses and worms, as well as new threats that may arise via a desktop-based offering.

by Chris Lake
netimperative
April 17, 2003



The service, powered by McAfee anti-virus technology, will scan incoming and outgoing attachments and does not require the user to install any software or opt-in.

haiku writes "AOL Time Warner is being sued by one of the largest pension funds in the US over the media group's role in an alleged $193m accounting fraud at Homestore.com, the online real estate listings company.

According to the lawsuit, which was filed late last week by the California State Teachers' Retirement System, executives at AOL's America Online internet division played a central role in devising sham advertising deals that artificially boosted Homestore's revenues.

The detailed suit, which also names Homestore.com's auditing firm PwC, the services group Cendant and a string of smaller companies as defendants, casts a light on the lengths to which some internet companies allegedly went to create the semblance of revenue growth during the market boom of the late 1990s."

The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled against America Online in its efforts to protect the identity of one of its 35 million subscribers by asking the court to quash a subpoena calling for the member's name, in an issue that goes to the heart of the anonymity of the Internet.

The ruling against the world's largest Internet service provider, based in Dulles, Virginia, was the latest in the evolution of privacy laws as they pertain to the Internet and identities of Web surfers, privacy experts said.

haiku writes "AOL Instant Messenger has been found to contain a vulnerability that will allow a remote attacker cause it to programs when a user clicks on a not-so-specially crafted hypertext link.
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The nation's largest Internet service, America Online, will begin transmitting Amber Alerts about abducted children onto the screens of computers, pagers and cell phones of more than 26 million subscribers in dozens of states and cities.

Beginning in early November, warnings issued across the patchwork of communities that use the system will go to AOL users in those areas who request to receive them. All but one of the existing Amber Alert systems are participating with AOL.