Compact and user-friendly

Virus making and other Internet crimes are well-organized businesses. Updating of virus databases is essential for protection against such threats. Constant monitoring and lots of customers worldwide ensure prompt collection of information on dangerous web-resources and retrieval of latest samples of viruses that help keep protection of users up-to-date.

Software can be set to update automatically, on-demand or according to a schedule. Update files are downloaded very quickly even if a connection speed is low. There are always available update servers. No need to restart a computer after updating. Dr.Web starts using the latest virus definitions right away.

Don’t disable the automatic updating or set a desired updating frequency and your anti-virus software will always remain ready to counter latest threats.

Low traffic

Updates are very small – 50-200 Kb. You can choose to update only the virus database to lower your traffic. However, it is not recommended to use the option. Dr.Web anti-virus for Windows is constantly improved to counter newest cyber-threats. New features are added with updates of modules that are automatically updated from the server of the company during a regular updating session. Updates can be downloaded in archives to reduce traffic. Doctor Web uses a special data compression algorithm to reduce the size of downloaded updates. If a minor fix or an add-on is released for the virus database, it is downloaded as a patch so the amount of transferred data is decreased by dozens of times.

Virus monitoring service

• The Doctor Web virus monitoring service collects malware samples all over the world.
• A hot update is released immediately after a new threat has been analyzed.
• As an update is released, it becomes available on several servers located in different parts of the globe to all Dr.Web customers.
• A new update is tested over a huge number of clean files to ensure that no false detection will occur.
• An intelligent system automatically adding similar viruses to a database ensures even prompter response to emerging threats.

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Dr.Web virus database

• Record small number of entries.
• Small size of updates.
• One entry allows detecting hundreds or even thousands of similar viruses.

Though smaller than virus databases of other vendors, it ensures detection of the same (or even greater) number of malicious programs.

What are the benefits of a smaller database?

• Lower disk usage
• Lower memory usage
• Lower updating traffic
• Higher scan speed
• Detection of viruses that are yet to come as modifications of known malware