Updating Anti-virus

Anti-virus solutions of Doctor Web use Dr.Web virus databases to detect malicious software. These databases contain details and signatures for all virus threats known at the moment of the product release. However, modern virus threats are characterized by high-speed evolvement and modification. Within several days and sometimes hours, new viruses and malicious programs emerge. To mitigate the risk of infection during the licensed period, Doctor Web provides you with regular updates to virus databases and product components, which are distributed via the Internet. With the updates, Dr.Web Anti-virus receives information required to detect new viruses, block their spreading and sometimes cure infected files which were incurable before. From time to time, the updates also include enhancements to anti-virus algorithms and fix bugs in software and documentation.

Updating the components and virus databases of Dr.Web Anti-virus ensures that your Mac's protection is always up to date and ready for any new threat types. Updating is performed by a special component called Updater.

On the first start of Dr.Web Anti-virus it is necessary to update the virus databases to the most recent for the moment of the application start. Further updates will be performed periodically, with interval specified in preferences of Dr.Web Anti-virus.

Configuring the update interval