Dr.Web Anti-Virus 5, 1 Year

[leofelix]

Originally Posted by springname

can someone tell me more about this software as I haven't used it before

http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/...-for-everyone/

Raymond wrote:
"Dr.Web Antivirus v5 for Windows takes up around 46MB of memory during idle when Windows has just been booted up and it increases whenever it is working. If you are using Vista/7, you shouldn’t worry about that because it the OS itself has the ability to clean up memory. A big part of the memory usage is taken by the spidermail module which is used to scan for viruses in emails. You can disable it if you do not use Outlook or any POP3 email clients. Right click on the Dr Web icon at the notification area, SpIDer Mail > Settings. At the Scan tab, uncheck Load at start.

Dr.Web is definitely better than Vexira in terms of virus detection because it detected every virus that I drop in to my test computer. Dr.Web Antivirus runs on Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista 32bit only"
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In my opinion Dr Web has not a nice GUI, it calls virus that detects like Kaspersky does (and has same false positives), takes too long to do a full scan.
I prefer NOD32 and Avira, but Dr Web is a very good antivirus anyway

[sbeireis]

Thank you my_immortalize.
I got the key fine and installation and registration was a breeze. The only problem I have is with the SpIDer Guard. It won't activate and there is a black spider with a red x in the task bar. I haven't touched any of the settings yet. then I also have a green icon with a yellow warning sign that again tells me my SpIDer Guard is not running. I also get a warning message that says SpIDer Guard is no protecting my system and is not properly configures so some componets are not loaded: SpIder Guard for Windows and SpIDer Guard File System Monitor. then it gives me options to load Manual or Auto and Auto is marked. then it give a box C:|Program Files|DrWeb (This is where the program and key installed to) then there is a Load button (won't load) and and uninstall button. I'm really at a loss. I am running Winxp sp3.
thanks again,