Operating Principles

The component is designed to communicate with the Dr.Web Cloud service of the Doctor Web company to scan contents of a specified file for threats unknown to local Dr.Web Scanning Engine and to check whether a specified URL belongs to any of the categories of web resources predefined by the Doctor Web company. Furthermore, the component periodically sends the statistics on detection of infected files and information about the operating system, on which Dr.Web Server Security Suite is run, to the Dr.Web Cloud service.

Dr.Web CloudD is automatically run by the configuration daemon upon receiving a command from the user or some component of Dr.Web Server Security Suite.

To use the Dr.Web Cloud service, run the command:

Requests to Dr.Web Cloud (to scan URLs or files) via this component can be sent by various components of Dr.Web Server Security Suite (depending on the distribution).

Furthermore, the component is used while scanning files on demand of the Dr.Web Ctl tool designed to manage Dr.Web Server Security Suite from the command line (the tool is started with the drweb-ctl command). Upon detection of threats, Dr.Web Scanning Engine sends a report about the file to Dr.Web Cloud.