As you know, we didn’t do any essential updates and improvements of program for a long time. We decide to make a good and qualitative leap in few directions, in order to meet the needs of all users.
The update will be very essential. Release of beta version is planned to April 2010. The price for software will be up to 570$ for new licenses, but for existing customers – all updates are for FREE.

Success rate is higher

• With new version of XRumer will be possible to pass automatically such popular protections as ReCaptcha and DLE-captcha (ReCaptcha is used on more than 30% of resources; same as DLE-captcha become very popular). New version of XRumer can bypass 7 new most popular graphical protections.
• Very often the problem with successful registration and posting is related with existences of non standard fields on forums. This problem can be solved with new intellectual system, that allow to fulfill, even, unknown fields, as select, checkbox, radio button.
• Very good improvement of work of Mass-PM mode: bypass the restrictions set by administration of forums will accelerate sending of private messages to tens or even hundreds of times.
• Improvement of ref-spam: the processing of Java from counters on websites allows getting the domain in ref.list on Liveinternet.ru, Top.Mail.ru and any other counters.
• New method of index of content will increase the speed and thematic of “AntiSpam” system

ModCreator

• New tool will simplify the creation of mods for XRumer. It’s not necessary to know HTML, PHP or any other languages. New mod can be created in 2 clicks!
• By creating some useful mods and selling it with $10, during 1 month you will get $10.000 from 1000 sales. The notification about new mod will get all our customers automatically.
• The protection system of mods from illegal copying, and convenient system of switching between modes will expand the market. The opportunities of development of XRumer will be unlimited.

AutoDating

In new XRumer is finished the plugin AutoDating (for posting by Mamba and Loveplanet):

• Autoreply option gives 100% guarantee of protection from banning of profile.
• Facilities of Vip user.
• Improved work of collecting of profiles.
• Multithreading and ability of usage of list of profiles;
• Export / import of lists, filtering;
• Usage of proxies/SOCKS

We remind you that captcha from Mamba and Loveplanet is recognized in automatic mode, no need to use any third-party services.

Facebook+Odnoklassniki+Vkontakte

On this plugin we are working for a long time, and it can be considered most multifunctional among other programs.

• Captcha is recognized automatically for Odnoklassniki.ru, Vkontakte.ru and Facebook.com. No need to use any services to decode captcha.
• Different ways to collect profiles, checking and filtering of them
• The possibility of sending PM, posts on forums/boards, comments to photo, add pictures to forums/boards, send gifts etc.
• Using of proxy/SOCKS
• Usage of schedule
• Auto invite in different groups
• Possibility to use variation system and macros
• Multi-threading process of list of profiles.

Integration with third-party programs

Advanced Control System allows to integrate XRumer program with third-party programs that operate from outside, including remotely. This allows to create automated systems that will completely avoid the routine:

• Manage the program through command line(keys)
• Control the program via remote scripts (the program regularly sends the request and perform the tasks )
• New opportunities for auto- filtering and auto-checking of lists of links, downloading new databases etc.

This is not the full list of updates and improvements planned to be done. We chose 5 directions of adding traffic and added 1 more from us.

New version of XRumer will bring our software to new level, and flexible system of creating of mods makes the development of XRumer unlimited and endless.

XRumer interface

1. Main menu:

Project – project editing menu (messages text, links, titles, nicknames and other information is stored in this folder); project files have .xpy extensions and are stored in the Projects folder. This is not accessible in the demo version.
Tools – different tools for working with the links database: counting totals, removal of duplicates, sorting by topic number, black-list filtering etc.
Options – editing your account on http://www.botmasternet.com (login and password), Proxy-connection setup, choice of links uploading mode of activation from a mail box (automatic background / manual / switched – off), other options
Events log – the list of the processes and times that XRumer has performed.
Scheduler – management of scheduled tasks

How to start working with XRumer

For demo version:

1. Start xpymep.exe program

2. Carefully read instructions in the window and click OK

3. Proceed according to instructions

What for is needed this option?

• To send replies in topics with your theme, to maintain an existing dialog. Such topics can be gathered with Hrefer, by setting it up correctly.
• To send replies to multiple topics from one forum (if you know for sure, that this forum is not moderated) or to many forums.
• To increase your RLinksList database by converting Success report in additional RLinksList.

How it’s working?
Using additional program rgen.exe (download it here) you can convert database with links to topics (that mean in links of ANSWER to topics) – in RLinkslist database.

Screen of program:

Src.file – source file with links to topics (gathered with Hrefer or use report Success id*.txt – “Successful”)
Dest.file – resulting file, there will be placed links of answer in these topics RLinksList id*.txt

If the option “Place to the dest.file only converted links” enable, then in resulting file will be placed ONLY converted links.
The option “Filter doubles by topic ID: select last topic on identical forums” will filter duplicates of topics and will save only links to last topics on identical forums. This option will be helpful if you had gathered database without filtering by duplicates.

Example of usage:

At the present, the program convert links like:

viewtopic.php?p=[number]
viewtopic.htm?p=[number]
viewtopic.php?t=[number]
viewtopic,p,[number].html
/viewtopic/p=[number].html
viewtopic-p-[number].html
viewtopic.php?f=[number1]&p=[number2]
modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=[number]
/ftopic[number].html
showthread.php?p=[number]
index.php?act=ST&f=[number1]&t=[number2]
-post-[number].html
/[number1].html?view=[number2]
?p=[number1]#comment-[number]
ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=[number1];t=[number2]
ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic&f=[number1]&t=[number2]
index.php?action=vthread&forum=[number1]&topic=[number2]
YaBB.pl?num=[number]
YaBB.pl?action=print;num=[number]
;action=display;num=[number];
topic.php?forum=[number1]&topic=[number2]
?board=[number1];action=display;threadid=[number2]
/topic.php?p=[number]

That mean program works with most popular forum engines: phpBB (different versions) VBulletin, IPB (but not in all cases), UltimateBB, YaBB and some other. This program will NOT work on guestbooks, boards, catalogues.

It involves creating a network that doesn’t associate your XRumer
links to the white hat site. Here’s a illustration of what to do:

So send XRumer links to parasite hosts, sites that aren’t yours (to
cloud the trail…), to blogs like blogger and wordpress, and your
black hat sites that you expect to lose anyway.

Link those to another level of sites that we’ll call “grey hat” but
they should be primarily white hat looking sites that just serve as
link juice to the main white hat site.

Basically, use XRumer to give your existing links more juice, and don’t link directly to your own sites.

Anyway, it’s always interesting to learn more about people behind great software. Recently I found an interview with Aleksandr Ryanchenko (“botmaster”), the author of XRumer. Translation to English is below. Thanks Aleksandr Nikolayev (“square”) for interviewing!

Interview with Botmaster

I have recently interviewed a very interesting man, the team leader of XRumer developers – botmaster, Aleksandr Ryanchenko. I am very confident that this product is my best acquisition for the time of online experience

Here it is:

square: Of course readers would like to know a little bit about the developers team, understandably you cannot tell us a lot, but let’s try to get to know as much as we can about how you arrange work (in office, freelance workers or something else)? How many people you employ? What is their occupation?

botmaster: We employ two persons – office programmers, and the rest work remotely: technical support for foreign customers, a designer and two more programmers.

square: Do you take new people on your team? Or is the team complete?

botmaster: Of course we take new people, however, finding reliable and professional workers is getting more difficult.

square: Did XRumer project appear before/after the team or in the same time?

botmaster: The core team is I and my acquaintance, a programmer. We used to create some products together, most of which were not for sale, but for our own needs. We had even competed with each other trying to show who’s the best. When we started working on XRumer, I worked on one part of software modules and he created other modules, and I would determine technical specifications. As the software became more popular, I had to hire more people, because we couldn’t manage everything ourselves.

square: Why did you decide to create a submitter and who had this idea first?

botmaster: It was an experiment. It all started just a few years ago. When I offered other people to create such program, they would say that it is practically impossible, forums are too different and many of them have a security system. It was the understanding of sophistication that sparked the excitement. Particularly when you consider the fact that there were no such products at that time.

Initially the program was intended for our own needs (emailing by client orders, promotion of our own projects) and for about two years it was not for sale at all. The decision to make this piece of software available for sale was made when clients who ordered emails sending asked giving them the program itself. In practice it turned out that distribution of this program does not make it less efficient, because there are tens of millions of resources for internet posting, and there are many new resources coming.

By the way, the funny name for this program – XRumer was chosen practically by chance, when we did not even think about selling it. Later on, when sales started, it was too late to give it another name. Now I can say that to some extent it is a brand name.

square: How do you protect your program against hackers?

botmaster: We are doing it quite well. No one has ever fully hacked it since the release of version 4.0. Version 5.0 has an even better protection. On the other hand, distribution of obsolete, hacked versions of the program is a good advertisement for our product and eventually brings more sales.

square: That is perfect. Now let me ask you a few questions about another category of people who had something to do with XRumer. These are users! What is the approximate number of active users of this software and how many of them are using this piece of software professionally?

botmaster: Simultaneously there are 5 times fewer operated units it as compared to the number of sold units. Some people send emails once in two months, other use it even less often, and some people use it 24 hours a day and even buy additional accounts for installation on multiple computers. It is hard to say how many of them are using this software professionally, because we do no track how exactly people use it.

square: Is it too much trouble to support and teach users? How much time it takes?

botmaster: It takes a lot of time. Sometimes we have to work simultaneously with 20-30 customers. Now software development is slower because of time spent for customer support. It is a natural thing.

square: You have done a lot for automation of interaction with customers, why don’t you implement generation of activation keys without your immediate participation? You cannot be online 24 hours a day.

botmaster: Key generation is implemented in version 5, it is disabled in version 3.

square: In the latest software versions you have fulfilled a number of customer requests in the form of plug-ins, will that become a standard practice? Is it free of charge or not, how much would it cost?

botmaster: In fact about 90% of program innovations result from requests and proposals from customers. It is a standard practice for a long while. All program innovations are free.

square: Please describe in short the expected content of your new forum section – ‘Lessons’?

botmaster: It will contain detailed recommendations for newcomers on how to create correctly a mailing project, analyze program reports, advices to experienced users – teach program about new guest engines, forums, blogs, catalogs, correct utilization of scheduling and self-training systems, methods of guaranteed protection against abuse and so on.

square: Now let’s move on and talk about forum owners. Now most of forum owners know about your program and constantly experience its effect. Were there any threats to you? And how far would threateners go, would they initiate ddos-attacks?

botmaster: Threats come all the time. We politely offer them to delete their forum address from our database.

square: Is it possible to send you a letter and ask you to add a particular forum to black-list? Or, is it added only after an abuse occurs?

botmaster: Yes, that is possible.

square: And our last question, were there any conflicts with SE owners? What attitude do search engines have to you, were there any contacts between you and them?

botmaster: We did not have any conflicts and I hope we will never have!

square: If it’s not too much to ask, as a conclusion, what are your wishes to our readers, your current and future buyers?

botmaster: I wish you good luck in all your undertakings! In the future we will try to make you more happy with more frequent software updates, and new software products. Internet is changing rapidly, it is important to understand it and not only rely on proven methods but develop new ones.

square: Thank you very much for your answers, and wish you all the best.

Reporting

1. Detailed reports (Result: …) – when you turn on this option, each link in the log file will be commented

2. Save to Z-base links, which requires activation – formed in the base when distribution ZLinksList id *. txt will be placed not only links to resources to which to send the message, but and those resources, which managed to register and the activation code was sent to the e-mail .

3. Make log of categories lists (CategoriesLog.txt) – this option will keep a log lists the sections in the forums (like those which managed to leave a message, and all the rest), the log file – Logs / CategoriesLog id *. txt

When you click the “Start”

When you start up from the very beginning of forums, it will most likely need to delete old records. If you include these options, the relevant records will be deleted automatically when a new post.

Button Restore restores the default values.

XRumer Advanced options

Special conditions of anonymity

1. Do not post without a proxy – enable this option if you want to have 100% assurance that your messages will be sent only using a proxy. Before switching on this option, enable the option “Use a proxy” in the “anonymity” of the main forms.

2. Allow to post without proxy to prior. categories – this option is set up to expedite deliveries, if your level of anonymity is not important: if XRumer will detect the current forum section, right on the priority list (which is defined in the project), then use a proxy for this Forum will be deactivated.

Interface

1. Autolaunch on exit – if enabled, if you accidentally close the program it will start again.

2. Visual Effects – on/off visual effects

3. Monitoring – if enabled, at the top of the monitor in one line will show current requests via the Internet.

4. Do not save options – if enabled, when you close the program all the changes can not be saved

5. Hide logo – hides image logo on top form. Especially true when you use remote servers, and VPS.

6. Hide threads monitoring table – hides the display of the flow in the distribution.
We recommend that you use to improve program performance and enhance the stability of the work on time deliveries.