A Thai computer programmer behind a wildly popular anti-mosquito software package has upgraded his program to also repel cockroaches and rats, the English language Nation newspaper reports.
According to the daily, the original free download proved so popular with Thai and overseas Net surfers that developer Saranyou Punyaratanabunbhu decided to upgrade his software to target other pests.
The original program, "Anti-mosquitoes." had more than 50,000 downloads in the first three days of its posting on the Thaiware.com Web site.
The upgraded version, called Anti-Mal 2.0, has been downloaded more than 20,000 times.