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Web Wiz is proud to announce today, Monday 14th April 2008, the launch of free CAPTCHA security image software, Web Wiz CAPTCHA version 4.0.

This new release is a major milestone with complete redevelopment in the way the CAPTCHA security image is generated. The CAPTCHA image now generates a unique security image on the fly.

Web Wiz CAPTCHA has also been made simpler to integrate into your own site's forms and now supports 'postback' to submit the page back to itself.

A full list of new features include;

• Unique CAPTCHA image created each time on the fly
• Abbyy FineReader 9 Pro (one of the best OCR software available) could not recognise at present default settings
• Protects from spam bots remotely submitting spam to your sites emails forms, etc.
• Protects against dictionary and brute force hacking; to protect login forms and secure areas
  
• Simpler integration into your websites forms with support for 'postback'
  
• Each unique CAPTCHA image is created on the fly with configurable colours, noise, and distortion levels
• Characters that course confusion are not used, including (0 and O, 1, l and I, 9 and g, 4 and A, etc.)
• Configure the amount of noise and distortion within the CAPTCHA image
• Configure Background, Border, and Character colours
• Enable/Disable different distortion and noise types
• Over 12 different colour, distortion, and noise levels can be configured
• Configure your own balance between human readability and automated programs reading the CAPTCHA image
• Distortion and noise types include;
• Random pixilation, with 2 levels and 2 colour types
• Random noise lines, with 2 levels and 2 colour types
• Random character skewing
• Random line placement

For further information and free download see, www.WebWizCAPTCHA.com

As part of our ongoing solution to bring our customers the best possible service we have over the Easter break upgraded both our Primary and Backup Mail Servers to bring you improved performance, AJAX webmail, improved anti-SPAM and anti-virus protection, and increased backup frequency.

New AJAX Webmail

The new AJAX webmail service brings you the power of a desktop email client to your web browser, allowing to use your Web Wiz Mailboxes from any computer with an internet connection and a web browser.

The use of snapping panes, drag-and-drop, and other intuitive user controls give the Web Wiz Webmail service one of the most advanced Web interfaces available. The powerful interface with numerous tools can also have the Contacts and the Events Calendar synced with Outlook on your own PC giving you access to your Contacts and Calendar while being out of the office.

New Anti-SPAM and Anti-Virus Server

We have introduced our new Artemis Server based on Linux SpamAssassin and ClamAV. This new Anti-SPAM and Anti-Virus Server improve on our present anti-spam solution scanning all incoming email and marking any emails detected as being SPAM with a Low, Medium, and High subject prefix allowing you to use this with your own anti-spam solutions.

All email to our network is scanned for viruses and any email detected as containing a virus is removed before it ever reaches your inbox.

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For more information on all our Hosting Package see; www.webwiz.net/web-hosting

Web Wiz is proud to announce that we have extended the number of TLD's that you can register through our Domain Name Registration Service. As well as the more traditional .COM, .ORG and .NET. domains you can also now register domains under the new TLD's below:-

• .mobi
• .us
• .eu
• .ws
• .tv
  
  

As with all domains registered through Web Wiz, you have full control over your domains, Nameservers, Contact's, Web Forwarding, etc. in real-time through our online Client Area Domain Name Management System.

We also hope in the coming months to extend our Domain Name Management to also include DNS services using our own DNS servers, with real-time editing of DNS zones. Our Primary DNS Server is located in the UK and our Secondary DNS Server in the US giving a total redundant DNS solution.

For more information please see;
Web Wiz Domain Name Registration Service

Web Wiz is pleased to announce support for ASP.NET 3.5 on all shared and reseller hosting packages, as well as supporting previous ASP.NET Frameworks including 1.1 and 2.0.

ASP.NET 3.5 builds upon the ASP.NET 2.0 Framework adding new features and libraries including Language Integrated Query (LINQ) and ASP.NET AJAX.

For more information on ASP.NET 3.5 Hosting available from Web Wiz, please see;
Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 Hosting