Review of Dr Web Antivirus v6

[sujay]

I am writing this review on the request of Samuel.

Installation

Smooth, One of the best installation I have ever seen. Like Kaspersky it allows you to install it even in an infected computer. You will get options to update during installation and perform a short scan during installation.

Interface

There is no interface of Dr Web. They are still maintaining the older pattern. You will have a green tray icon. Clicking on that you will get options.

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Things are easy to configure with Dr Web.

License Manager

Tools>License Manager

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Settings

Tools>Settings

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On-Access Scanner (SpIDer Guard)

Statistics

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Settings

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Mail Guard (SpIDer Mail)

Statistics

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Settings

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[sujay]

Update

Updates frequently, Almost in 1 or 2 hours. And update size is

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Interface

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Settings

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Scanner

If you have used Dr Web Cure-It before, then there is nothing to tell about it.

Interface

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Settings

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System Load

Yes it is somewhat resource intensive.

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I used to have problems with it in my old PC DualCore @1.88GHz Intel Processor with 512mb RAM. But with my laptop Core2Duo @2.00GHz with 2Gb RAM I didn't have any problem. I runs smooth with Private Firewall, MABM Pro, Prevx Safeonline, Winpatrol and ikill in my Windows 7 ultimate 32bit Laptop.
Its detection is pretty good although there is lack of good reviews about it. I admire it due to its decent/not too agressive detection and good cleaning ability, frequent updates, thorough scan. It scan most thoroughly among all AVs I have tried (at the second place comes MSE), it scans even PDF streams like an archive. That's why its scan take a longer time to finish. In my HDD with 50Gb of files (PDF, Archives, ISO files, songs) it took 1:30 hr to complete.

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is very good. I got fixes for false positives/potential malwares within 6 hrs.
Here are some of their good web resources

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[Samuel]

Thanks a lot for the review Sujay. As you said, yes there are not many good reviews on web and that's why I asked you for a review, as what you say will be more accurate and correct as you are already using it for a while. Thanks again for taking time in reviewing it friend.

[sujay]

You are welcome friend..
Here is a latest review

http://www.anti-malware-test.com/?q=taxonomy/term/14

In that site you will have some interesting results...

[Avinash]

Thanks mate for the review. Good for anyone who wish to try Dr Web Antivirus.

btw, Moved the thread to appropriate subforum of reviews from members.

[Samuel]

There are so many independent associations that are conducting tests and surprisingly the results of each one deviate from one another to a huge extent. So, which tests do you people trust more.

[sujay]

Results by anti-malware-test.com and avcomparatives.com are quite similar. So, I believe them.

[Grr]

Nice review Sujay.

PS: pls remove the serial/license info from pic-2. The lower section...

[sujay]

Thanks grr...
You mean that license manager window? I have hidden the last 4 digits and also the registered email address is not there.

[Grr]

Thanks grr...
You mean that license manager window? I have hidden the last 4 digits and also the registered email address is not there.

Yes, but above the list of components it shows license