Updating Virus Databases

Dr.Web uses virus databases to detect malicious software. These databases contain details and signatures for all viruses and malicious programs known at the moment of the plug-in release. However modern computer viruses are characterized by the high-speed evolvement and modification. More than that, within several days and sometimes hours, new viruses emerge which can infect millions of computers around the world. To mitigate the risk of infection during the licensed period, Doctor Web provides you with regular updates to virus databases and plug-in components. The Updater component of Dr.Web helps you download the updates via the internet and automatically installs them. Virus databases are considered outdated after 24 hours since the last successful update.

You can review the information about the application version, license, virus databases and also the date, time and result of the last update on the Version pane in the Dr.Web Administrator Web Console tree. You can start the virus databases update by clicking Start on the Update task section.

You can change parameters of the update using drwupsrv.bat file.

An updating task is created during installation of Dr.Web setting the optimal periodicity for downloading the updates from the Doctor Web update servers. You can adjust this schedule using Windows Task Scheduler:

1.Open Windows Task Scheduler.

2.Right-click the Doctor Web for Exchange Update Task task and click Properties.

3.In the Doctor Web for Exchange Update Task window, open the Triggers tab and modify the update periodicity. By default, virus databases are updated every hour.

4.Click OK.