New version of Dr.Web anti-virus scanner for Windows released

May 6, 2007

Doctor Web, Ltd., a Russian developer of IT-security solutions branded Dr.Web, releases a new version of Dr.Web anti-virus scanner for Windows.

The following changes have been done to the new version:.

Dr.Web for Windows scanner

• Detection and curing of Ntldrbot (aka Rustock.C) has been implemented.
• Interaction between the scanner and SpIDer Guard has been improved so the scanner could check files blocked by the monitor.
• Removal of certain types of files in Windows (x64) has been fixed.
• A log write error that occurred during scanning of archives/containers has been fixed. Writing empty strings to the log has also been corrected.
• An error that sometimes caused scanner crash to BSOD in Vista/2008 has been fixed.
• Curing certain types of viruses in RAM has been fixed.
• Small changes have been done to the GUI.

• Debug messages have been removed from the log

• Starting jobs at the background has been fixed.

• Options for addition actions by the scanner for curing some malware have been added. For more information on the new options in the scanner Help go to Scanner Configuration->the Actions tab->Additional curing options.

  The new version of Dr.Web for Windows anti-virus scanner is available for downloading on all updating servers of Doctor Web, Ltd. and will be automatically downloaded to all computers protected by Dr.Web anti-viruses upon updating.

  
  
  
  

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