Doctor Web, Ltd. joins Microsoft's Partner Program as Microsoft Certified Partner

October 31, 2006

Doctor Web, Ltd. has marked another milestone in its software market evolution obtaining Microsoft Certified Partner status for ISV/Software Solutions. This competency can be earned by companies having a proven experience in developing and marketing packaged software solutions based on Microsoft technologies. Components of its major product - Dr.Web for Windows - have successfully undergone extesive tests in the Microsoft appointed laboratory VeryTest, meeting all rigorous requirements of Microsoft for this competency. The highest level of Dr.Web anti-virus development team was once again confirmed by the award of this status.

By joining the Microsoft Partner Program in the status of Microsoft Certified Partner, Doctor Web, Ltd. not only gains access to the newest Microsoft technologies and build its own security solutions based on them, but will obtains a possibility to improve and broaden its customer-oriented services, take part in various marketing initiatives by Microsoft Corporation and to upgrade its developers level through specialized training programs.

Anti-virus solutions for Microsoft platforms have always been in the focus of Dr.Web development team. Today Dr.Web anti-virus covers very wide range of operating systems by Microsoft - starting from Windows 95 OSR2 to Windows 2003 Server. Dr.Web Enterprise Suite and Dr.Web for Windows file servers have reaced the highest popularity in the corporate segment providing a very wide range of functions together with excellent detection rates and utmost stability.

Boris Sharov, CEO of Doctor Web, Ltd., commented: "We are more than satisfied with this achievement. It gives us new technological opportunities. It has always been quite difficult for an anti-virus to get certified by Microsoft, which makes this status award much more important for us. We are fully aware that besides the detection level and the ability of a product to resist various tricks of malware, users generally care very much about the compatibility of the anti-virus software with other applications running on their machines and its stable work on Microsoft platforms. Being a Microsoft Certified Partner means for our company the ability to bring to the world anti-virus market the newest protection technologies for Microsoft platforms. We plan to broaden our cooperation with Microsoft to provide better services and higher level of security to all our customers".