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AIM HACK

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kelesh3

Banned
Ever read the Hackers Guide To AIM? One of the things was about how to get rid of the advertisements by using a HEx editor and editing advert.ocm:

1. Create a .gif image of 120x60 & 256 colors.
2. Name it anything you want, its not important.
3. Find and back up "advert.ocm"
4. Open the file in a hex editor (I use hexworkshop)
5. Find the string:
GIFDATA.</A></HTML>.<HTML>
< A HREF=&quot;%s&quot;>
6. Replace it with the string:
</A></HTML>.<HTML>
<IMG SRC=&quot;LINK TO IMAGE&quot;>
7. Restart AIM and thats it.


I tried this, and a few other logical things, using hex workshop, to no avail. I could shrink the pictures, add borders, but I could not change the links or the images. Basically, advert.ocm gets a value %s from somewhere and uses it to get the pictures and links. ANyway, whenever i changed that value to something else, like &quot;www.hotmail.com&quot; or something, my ads were replaced with blankness. Are there any l337 H4x0r's that know how to perform this hack correctly on the newer versions of AIM? I have version 4.3.2229
 
you're making this hack job a little more complex than it needs to be

completely stop aim
in the AIM install directory (default: program files\aim95) edit the aim.odl with notepad
find on_group(5) and on_group(11)
comment the lines within the brackets using ;
save
delete advert.ocm
 
GomerPyle's got it.

that's my method, and it works fine. better than yours.

yes, most hacking jobs are alot simpler than you make them out to be (in general).

however, deleting advert.ocm isn't necessary. but it keeps everything clean.
 
I hacked an older version of AIM but haven't done it to my current version... is anyone really THAT bothered by the ad that they need to hack it out?
 
Errrr.... YOu guys dont' understand, i wanted to remove it and replace it with my own image and link. Anyway, I figured it out fiddling around with html and the hex editor on advert.ocm. Email me if you guys want help on how to do it.
 
Go get a hex editor from www.download.com(hex workshop is good). Open up advert.ocm (first back it up somewhere), and chang the link section in the middle with %s and %d's all over to:

</A></HTML>.<HTML>AOL SUCKS ASS.<a href=&quot;www.hotmail.com&quot;><img src=&quot;http://www.hackensackhigh.org/~cmk/coke.gif&quot; height=&quot;60&quot; width=&quot;120&quot;></a>...

Apparently where you have stuff and on what line is important. The AOL SUCKS ASS string is displayed for the first 4 seconds when i open aim, when the usually show you their logo. After that, i get my custom image/link. For convenience, i uploaded my picture online, but you could do a link to a file on your computer. i deleted everything after <HTML> and before </a> that was there and inputted my own stuff. The <a href=&quot;www is a new line, which is apparently where it has to start to work. Fool around with it, you'll figure it out.


Make sure the image is a 120 x 60 gif. Also, the ad on teh bottom takes the bottom part of your image, so do somethign like I did so it looks alright. http://www.hackensackhigh.org/~cmk/coke.gif
Oh, yeah, I'm using AIM 4.3 on win2k, if it matters.
 
anyway to shrink up that gray area where the ads used to be?



<< completely stop aim
in the AIM install directory (default: program files\aim95) edit the aim.odl with notepad
find on_group(5) and on_group(11)
comment the lines within the brackets using ;
save
delete advert.ocm
>>

 
if you have the old aim you can use a program(but it's buggy), so that sucks. whatever, put a pic with your name or something up there, it's not that much space.
 
Thank you kelesh

This is the coolest thing that I have done to my computer in a while -- no more irritating ad banners to annoy me, and no aim errors either! and my own image and link too!

thanks again
 
OHHH.....nicccce 🙂

been wanting to get rid of the search bar and all, but too lazy to crack the prog myself 🙂

good job SUOrangeman
 
I tried Aimadjuster on various versions of AIM, and it was buggy on all of them. It's only officially compatible with older versions of AIM. It works the the 2.XX versions, but not the later ones, which I think are much better versions of AIM. Has anybody gotten AIMAD to work with a 4.XX version of AIM?
 
FMJGomerPyle's method works grandly except it doesnt shrink up the area the ad used to occupy but thats better than having ads i suppose.
 
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