• Advantages:
  
  
  • Extremely high speed. Thousands of hosts can be scanned in one minute!
  • More reliable than e-mail SPAM. Not everybody has/read e-mail. Many people just delete SPAM messages without opening them. By the other side, popup windows requires user to pay attention to advertising message because it pops over all other windows and can't be minimized.
  • High anonymity. Source address isn't recorded anywhere.
  • Big amount of users is covered by such advertising. PopupDevil comes with "Internet Map" that allows you to select country/ISP ranges to send messages to. You can send to the same range over and over again: you will be sending message to different people each time because probably those users who already received your message logged out and other people logged in between time of consecutive scans.
• Disadvantages:
  
  
  • Only sends messages to Windows NT/2k/XP online users.
  • Some ISPs have firewalls that blocks PopupDevil messages.
  • You can't send too big messages because user tends to close whatever appears on his screen without him/her requesting that.
  • Huge system load while sending messages. Unfortunately, the faster you wish PopupDevil to run the more system resources it will consume.
• Technical Characteristics:
  
  
  • Built-in editable database with 411,287,184 IP addresses from the entire world.
  • Sends up to 192,000 messages per hour on Cable connection.
  • User-friendly interface that allows fine-tuning for reaching the highest performance on your connection.
  • Can send messages up to 895 characters-long.
• Minimal System Requirements:
  
  
  • Pentium III 800 MHz processor.
  • 128 Mb of RAM.
  • Windows NT 4.0 Operational System.
  • 1.5 Mb of free disk space.
  • 28.8 kbps DialUp connection with the Internet.

• Select IP range(s): select the country/ISP to send messages to.
• "From" Field: enter your name or name of your company.
• Message to send: type here your advertising message. Remember about the 895-characters limit!
• Maximum Threads Number: how many connections to remote hosts to try to establish in parallel. This value is strictly related to speed of your connection. For example, Cable/ADSL goes fine with 200 threads while 28.8 DialUp only reaches the max performance on 75 threads. Note that bigger value isn't better; if you put more threads than your system/connection supports the scanning process will slow down a lot!
• Per-Thread timeout: amount of time to wait for each host to answer. 0 waits forever (use with extreme caution on LAN/WAN only!). The bigger the timeout is the more machines will receive your message. Smaller timeouts will ignore slower hosts and this way improves overall speed.
• Manage ranges database: the operations you can perform on IP ranges database.
  • Add new range: you can add ranges of your specific interests to be scanned.
  • Delete selected ranges: opposite of above.
  • Reload database: reloads database from the last saved state.
  • Save database: save current state of database. Note that state isn't saved by default!
  • Open alternative database: switch between main and custom databases.
• Register / Generate authentication key: if you wish to purchase PopupDevil you must generate so-called Authentication Key and send it to us. You will receive special key file that will unlock your copy of PopupDevil.

This version allows you to send up to 50 advertising messages in at max 5 minutes. If you want to unlock that limits then contact us by e-mail. Don't forget to provide us Authentication Code that is required for licensing.