Version 3.51

• I hope that the incorrect computer ID generation while program starting with Windows has been fixed at last. The problem was hard to track as it showed only on some systems having particular hard drives. During test run on the system where the error has been being constantly reproduced by older versions, the new version 3.51 didn't generate this error not even once in more than 100 restarts. Anyway in theory the problem may still appear and if you encounter this error in more or less repetitive circumstances, please report it to me.
• Start with Windows option under Windows 95/98 now starts the program as service. Which means that the program starts before any user logs in.
• Content analyzing changed a bit not to skip visited links when processing images.
• Fixed the problem with Clicking Agent going to Waiting for date change state when it reaches maximum hits for an account. Thus the account generated no hits in the end of the day. Now Clicking Agent will wait for date change only if there are no hits planned for the current hour. The program checks periodically to see if it should make any hits this hour. If it does it resumes from the waiting state and continues work. If not -- it will keep on waiting.
• Fake IP generation changed to make the IPs look more real.
• Fixed bug in Remote program administration. Clicking Agent hang up on the client side if the timeout interval of 15 minutes was exceeded without any commands issued from client.
• Added HTML special characters parsing (like &, ¦, etc.
• Added form processing rules in the Add/Edit account dialog.
• Added parameter [w filename] to generate a random word from a file "filename".
• Added parameter [h] which is replaced by current referer URL.
• Parameters ([...]) are now supported in Show URL, Click URL and Referer.

Version 3.50

• The program code was much rewritten to support new features and provide greater stability.
• Added automatic program update notification option. To turn on this option please look at the Advanced. When turned on the program checks for update every time you start Clicking Agent or every time you switch on autonotification option.
• Added separate word list file for every account.
• Added hourly distribution of hits accoring to time of the day.
• Added remote administration of accounts over a local or public network.
• Added error counter for proxy servers.
• Added multiple referers with ability to set a rate for each one. Referers list allows to setup rates from 0.01 to 100.00. Which lets specify a maximum of 10,000 referers for one account (if your RAM can accomodate this number).
• Removed connection number parameter in accounts settings. The program now dynamically changes the number of connections to keep up with the hits distribution graph.
• Removed pause parameter in accounts settings. Clicking Agent now automaically calculates pause required to keep up with the hits distribution graph.
• CTR precision raised to 1/100.
• Minimal image size of the banner that the program is clicking was made optional. Some ad agencies (like ClearBlueMedia) use a trick of showing a tranparent one pixel image instead of a banner and thus distinguishes those who cheat them because only cheaters will click an invisible image. Clicking Agent was detecting those tiny images and didn't click them. However it caused problems with those agencies who intentionally and constantly use 1 pixel empty images to track impressions. Those banners never received any clicks from Clicking Agent. In this version (build 20) the minimal banner size that the program clicks was made an option for you to set. It defaults to 0 which means that Clicking Agent will click any banner disregarding its size. You can find this setting in the Add/edit account dialog.
• The Reboot computer on error option will completely restart computer when working under Windows 98, and only restart the program under Windows NT/2000. This is because Windows NT manages memory way better than Windows 98 and frees most resources used by a crashed program. On most Windows NT/2000 systems you have to log in first after restarting computer and that makes unattendent Clicking Agent work impossible if it crashes and reboots.
  But of course every effort is being made to make Clicking Agent as stable as possible.
• Enhanced content analyzing features. Every account now has four collections of substrings. Two -- for analyzing impressions (suspects and ignore), and two for analyzing clicks (suspects and ignore). If you configure the program for content analyzis you have to specify at least one substring for the program to search. During its work Clicking Agent will download the content of every page it passes and search for a link containing the suspect string. If it finds such link and this link doesn't include any of substrings from the ignore collection, then Clicking Agent will make a click on this link or generate an impression for it.
  During impression analyzis phase the tags like <img...>, <frame...>, <layer...>, etc. are processed. Tags like <frame...> will load content of frames or layers for further processing.
  When analyzing clicks the program will process links from <a...>, <form...>, etc. tags and click them for you.
  Tags like <area...> generate only one click for a visit (in random order).
  HTML forms are being filled for you automatically, generating random results every submission. To fill in text fields in forms the program uses a word list of the account being processed. If the word list doesn't exist the program will create it for you automatically.
  
• Added import function for referers list from a text file(s). To import a list of referers into an account open the Edit referers dialog and using your mouse drag and drop one or more files with referers onto the dialog. The file should contain referers in the following format:

                  rate referer URL
  
                  Example:
                  33.33 http://www.referer1.com/
                  33.33 http://www.referer2.com/
                  33.34 http://www.referer3.com/
                  

• Added prevension for infinite redirection loop due to some proxy errors.
• Added free system memory tracking. The program will not start new connections and will reduce already opened connections if free system memory drops below 2 Mb.