In this section:
•Purchasing and Registering License.
▫Connection to the centralized protection server.
Purchasing and Registering License
After a license is purchased, updates to product components and virus databases are regularly downloaded from Doctor Web update servers. Moreover, if the customer encountered any issue when installing or using the purchased product, they can take advantage of technical support service provided by Doctor Web or its partners.
You can purchase any Dr.Web product as well as obtain a product serial number either from our partners (see the list of partners on https://partners.drweb.com/) or in our online store https://estore.drweb.com/. For details on license options, visit the Doctor Web official website at https://license.drweb.com/.
License registration is required to prove that you are a legal user of Dr.Web for Linux and activate the anti-virus functions, including the regular updates of virus databases. We recommend that you register the product and activate the license once the installation is completed.
A license can be activated one of the following ways:
•Via the Registration Wizard included in License Manager.
•On the Doctor Web official website at https://products.drweb.com/register/.
To activate or renew the license, you need to enter the serial number. The serial number is supplied with Dr.Web for Linux or via email when purchasing or renewing the license online.
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To renew the license, enter your registered serial number or provide a previous license key file. Otherwise, the period of license validity will be reduced by 150 days.
If you have several licenses for using Dr.Web for Linux on several computers, but choose to use Dr.Web for Linux only on one computer, you can specify this and, hence, all licenses will be combined and license validity period will be automatically extended. |
Users of Dr.Web can obtain a demo period for 1 month. It can be received in the Registration wizard window of License Manager without providing personal data.
The Registration Wizard of License Manager opens upon the first Dr.Web for Linux startup (usually the Registration Wizard starts once installation of Dr.Web for Linux completes). You can start registration from the License Manager window at any time by clicking Get new license on the page with information on the current license.
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To activate a license using the serial number or request a demo license, a valid internet connection is required. |
When a demo period or license is activated via License Manager, the key file (license or demo) is automatically generated on the local computer in its target directory. If you register on the website, the key file will be sent to you by email and you will need to install it manually.
If the registration wizard is unavailable (for example, if the operating system has no GUI), you can use the command for license management of the command-line interface drweb-ctl, which allows you to obtain the license key file corresponding to the serial number of the registered license. The description of the drweb-ctl utility can be found in User Manual.
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The full version of the Dr.Web for Linux User Manual is available: •On the Doctor Web official website at https://download.drweb.com/doc/ (an internet connection is required). •As a PDF file in the folder /opt/drweb.com/share/doc (a suffix in the file name indicates a language of the manual). |
If you have a key file corresponding to the valid license for the product (for example, if you obtained the key file by email or if you want to use Dr.Web for Linux on another computer), you can activate Dr.Web for Linux by specifying the path to the key file. You can specify the key file path:
•In the License Manager by clicking Other activation types on the first step of the registration procedure and specifying a path to the key file or to the zip archive with the key.
•Manually. For that
1.Unpack the key file if archived.
2.Copy the key file to the /etc/opt/drweb.com directory and rename the file to drweb32.key if necessary.
3.Execute the command:
# drweb-ctl reload |
to apply all changes.
You can also use the following command:
# drweb-ctl cfset Root.KeyPath <path to the key file> |
In this case, the key file will not be copied to the /etc/opt/drweb.com directory and will remain in its original location.
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If the key file is not copied to the /etc/opt/drweb.com directory, the user becomes responsible for ensuring that the file is protected from corruption or deletion. This installation method is not recommended as the key file can be accidentally deleted from the system (for example, if the directory, where the key file resides, is periodically cleaned up). Remember that if a key file is lost, you can request the support for a new one, but the number of such requests is limited. |
Connection to the centralized protection server
If the internet service provider or network administrator submits a file with settings for connecting to the centralized protection server, you can activate Dr.Web for Linux by specifying the file path. This can be done as follows:
•In the open program settings window, go to the Mode tab and select the Enable centralized protection mode check box. On the appeared menu, select the Load from file item, specify the path to the connection settings file and click Connect.
If a key file is lost but the existing license is not expired, register again by providing the personal data you specified during the previous registration. You can use a different email address. In this case, the license key file will be sent to the newly specified address.
A license key file can be obtained through the License Manager or the license management command a limited number of times. If that amount has been exceeded, you can confirm the registration of your serial number at https://products.drweb.com/register/ to receive the key file. The key file is sent to the email that was specified during the first registration.