New version—Dr.Web 12 for Windows—starts protecting users

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New version—Dr.Web 12 for Windows—starts protecting users

These are excerpts from Dr.Web News article about Dr.Web's version 12 which is still in Beta phase but is slated to be released this October 2019. Read on below.

Doctor Web, the Russian developer of anti-virus software products under the brand name Dr.Web, is pleased to present its new, twelfth version of Dr.Web for Windows, which has two licensing options — Dr.Web Security Space and Dr.Web Anti-virus. They are designed to protect home users and companies that do not need centrally managed anti-virus software.

The latest threats won't get through!

The new Dr.Web 12 version for Windows has:

• a significantly expanded range of program features;
  
• an expanded range of entities that can be protected by the anti-virus (processes, system services, drivers, the registry, Windows management instrumentation (WMI), system scheduler tasks, process network connections, and file system events);
  
• new, advanced scanning techniques, including new non-signature methods for detecting threats and new behavioural algorithms;
  
• heuristic algorithms with expanded detection capabilities;
  
• enhanced behavioural detection routines that make Dr.Web for Windows incredibly powerful. In version 12 they work alongside the signature and cloud-based technologies, leveraging the anti-virus engine and Dr.Web Cloud to combat threats even more effectively. They can now detect an even broader spectrum of threats;
  
• the ability to use a variety of sources to make a decision as to how harmful a file or process is in order to make a maximally reliable verdict.
  

Taken together, the improvements and innovations enable Dr.Web version 12 to detect even more threats, without having to constantly refer to the virus databases and without actually executing suspicious code. For users this means an additional reduced load on their protected devices.

The new philosophy of signature-based detection

In Dr.Web version 12 (and going forward!) all attempts by malware to execute code in a system or to start to engage in malicious activity are intercepted in a timely manner and scanned using a signature-based method. This method is used to the fullest in all scanning subsystems and components, as well as in Dr.Web Preventive Protection.

This results in an accelerated detection process—malware has no chance to even start working, let alone cause damage to a system.

Dr.Web’s heuristic algorithms have incredible new capabilities

"Just one fact
It was namely Dr.Web heuristic technology that detected the much-talked-about WannaCry; thanks to it, no Dr.Web user’s system was compromised."

Heuristic algorithms have been radically redesigned to detect bodiless threats, which are increasing in number daily and whose detection is severely complicated due to their specific features.

Heuristic algorithms have been added to detect LOLBINs/LOLScripts (Living Off The Land Binaries And Scripts). Cybercriminals use trusted processes (those not scanned by anti-viruses) to execute them. Some estimates indicate that in 2017 this class accounted for more than half of all attacks.

The new Dr.Web version 12's heuristic algorithms also take aim at trends that are popular with virus writers: launching malicious miners and imbedding malware downloaders (both those that are active and those designed to be launched in all system areas).

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