Ok, a few remarks for anyone who installs Dr Web (keeping in mind
that I had it running since months in the English version...).
On install it seems to hang for ages.
However its working to make certain files for each of your hard disks,
so let it go.
In my case it took a very long time as my system has problems anyway.
And I have many big hard disks to scan.
The main module, dr Web, has an English switch in the main menu.
Spider has English switch via the bar, right click.
The third module, ie the Dos box which can pop up with warnings,
has a setting (I think) in Drweb32.ini, which is in the drweb
directory.
[DOS]
LngFileName="Russian.DWL"
Now ac to the docs every language has an entry but it sounds like
the English is the real default as I checked my zipped original info
and it hasnt got that entry at all. So I removed this and have to find
out if this fixes my Dos Russian to something which I can read.
Donot forget I havent got any dos/windows installed Russian fonts...
Now having been to the website, to see whats on offer on has to go to
the Russian site and there is a release document 40 mentioned.
Following that link one sees this whole offer described and while not
perfectly clear there is also mendtioned ADINF which as far as I
understand is ALSO on free offer.
I know Alex doesnt seem to use it, I do (g)
Now this in my opinion is quite an interesting and useful part of the
whole package as it checks every time what files where
changed/deleted/directories/files added etc, depending on different
kind of crc's calculated..
WITH selection options and after which it doesnt scan the whole drive,
just whats changed.
In short asuming you scanned the whole drives properly once one will
get the option to check whats changed, which on my drives saves a long
time as I have about 24 gb of diskspace in use....
I also use under Dos the Norman AV part as its good to snapshot my
MBR's and other essential data in case it gets changed and I want it
back. Their old Thunderbyte under Dos had similar capabilities but
more powerful but was alas abandonded.
Anyway, I hope this helps others, as a product its recommended.
But you have to be able to read it (g) as I totally hung my system by
pressing the wrong button on that dos box.
Anyway, I will be off to download that ADINF as my previous
version expired last week and I was still in the process of sorting
some system problems out due to a malfunctioning powersupply!
What is not clear to me though as I donot see it mentioned anywhere,
is if this special version has to be registered as a downloaded free
copy or if one can just keep using it. Ie, does one apply for a
special key??
That needs someone (Alex ??) who can read Russian properly!
My experience is 35 years old from my university period and alas was more
math/physics and chemistry papers reading oriented.....
Other thing it may mention somewhere but I donot see sofar is that
every time you update the dignatures, a pair of files is added and
that if the basic database of the program changes all the updates it
doesnt need anymore as they are in the base, will get flagged as not
being able to be loaded during start. Its in the logs...
Anyway for those who have never used this package, I have a special
directory with zips containing virus strains, and its a fairly
compleate collection as I was involved with one of the Av companies in
testing and sending them new samples.
I have about 10000 of them sitting there and Norton/McAfee find about
6100, AVP and Dr WEB come very close and find about 9500-9600.
Unique strains, not one of the many clones they give different names.
Which is why Dr Web finds so 'few' compared to those who count every
minor variation as a virus even if the same scanner strings will find
them...
Obviously it should be noted that some virus strains are detected due
to running and changing file times to fractional seconds and silly things like
that to prevent a virus from trying to reinfect an already infected
file.
Whatever, Dr Web and AVP get very similar results and I would trust
them a lot more then Norton/McAfee to catch what I donot want to run.
Note that all of these products have fairly bad trojan discovery
rates.
In general they catch about 10-20 percent of those as there are many
variants so if your internet security is of importance, try another
beautiful product like AtGUARD or/and in combination with a proper
firewall. Its funny to see if you selfinfect your system how many
callers you suddenly get wanting to visit.
Alex, great thanks to letting us know, now please tell me do I have
somewhere to register to let them KNOW I run this free version? Or is that
in the included key files...
Best regards,
tracer
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