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Overview: Disgruntled Vista users, take heart: According to Deb Shinder, Windows 7 addresses many Vista annoyances and offers myriad improvements of its own.\n\nThis download is also available as an entry in our 10 Things blog.\n\n(Is this item miscategorized? Does it need more tags? Let us know.)\n\nFormat: PDF | Size: 510KB | Date: Feb 2009 |

XRumer is a Windows program that posts forum spam with the aim of boosting search engine rankings. It has been claimed that the program is able to bypass techniques commonly used by many websites to deter automated spam, such as account registration, CAPTCHAs, and e-mail activation before posting. The program makes heavy use of a database of known open proxies in an attempt to make it more difficult for administrators to block posts.