A few facts about Dr.Web products

Created in the early 90s in Russia by Igor Daniloff, Dr.Web® has always reflected its author’s basic philosophy: security means no compromise. Many innovations marked by Dr.Web has long become a standard for the AV industry, for example, cross-platform structure. Having appeared as the response to the growing threat of polymorphic viruses, Dr.Web Anti-virus still remains in the lead, always showing 100% results in the Virus Bulletin comparative reviews for this type of the most complicated viruses.

The other feature that has always distinguished the Dr.Web® anti-virus from its competitors is its low memory/resource usage, so that this AV remains unnoticeable to a user. This low footprint TOGETHER with its high detection abilities have attracted millions of users around the world to Dr.Web.

Product line :

The Dr.Web Anti-virus family offers solutions for all most popular platforms

• Microsoft Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
• Linux - all distributions with versions glibc-2.1, 2.2 & 2.3
• FreeBSD 3.5 or higher (3.x, 4.x, 5.x and 6.0)
• OpenBSD 3.1 or higher
• Solaris 8 or higher (i386)
• Novell NetWare - version 3.12 or higher
• MS DOS
• OS/2

There are scanners for MS DOS and OS/2 that can be used in very outdated environments or where GUI of MS Windows is unnecessary.

Dr.Web protects file and mail servers, separate workstations, corporate networks and Internet gateways worldwide. Large national Telcompanies choose Dr.Web for mail servers for its high-performance, stable operation and irreproachable detection of viruses combined with extremely low false detection rate. Dr.Web defends file servers of large businesses and data storages of universities and research institutes. Each and every piece of network receives protection by Dr.Web.

Rapid response to global threats :

The company has its AV-development department and the Virus Monitoring Service in Saint Petersburg, Russia, which provides a 24x7 monitoring of viruses, Trojans and other malwares, adding their definitions only 20-25 minutes after the sample is caught by the AV-Laboratory. The highest response speed to virus outbreaks is daily assured by the team of IT-specialists who have been with Dr.Web since early 90s, and its global partners network reports every day dozens and even hundreds of new viruses.

We have forever abandoned the idea of a scheduled release of the virus bases updates, though Dr.Web has been the first anti-virus in the world to have its virus bases updates several times per day. The main reason for this is that viral outbreaks do not follow any schedules. The virus analysts of the company release updates for the virus bases IMMEDIATELY after a new threat emerged and analyzed.

Only 25 minutes are required for an update to be made available for the Dr.Web world-wide users - this is the time to carry out a comprehensive internal testing of a new add-on.

This feature is enhanced - comparing to other anti-virus products - by an extremely compact size of each definition add-on - which makes it easy and very quick to download an update even if your connection is overloaded.

Low system resources requirements, compactness, speedy performance and reliability in detecting all types of malicious programs markedly differ Dr.Web® from the analogues solutions of other developers.