Operating Principles

The component is designed to refer to the Dr.Web Cloud service to scan contents of the specified file for threats unknown to the local Dr.Web Scanning Engine, and to check whether the specified URL belongs to any of Doctor Web’s predefined categories of web resources.

Dr.Web CloudD is automatically run by the configuration daemon. The component is run upon receiving a command from the user or one of the Dr.Web for UNIX File Servers components. The operation scheme is shown in the figure below.

Figure 23. Diagram of the components’ operation

component. Requests to the Dr.Web Cloud service (to scan URL or files) via this component can be sent by different components of Dr.Web for UNIX File Servers, marked in the scheme as “Other component” (depending on the product solution).

Besides that, the component is used during the scanning of files on the command from the Dr.Web for UNIX File Servers product management utility from the command line Dr.Web Ctl (it is started by the drweb-ctl command): upon detection of threats, the Dr.Web Scanning Engine scanning engine sends a report about the file to Dr.Web Cloud.