Hi there!
On 26 Dec 99, at 8:01, tracer wrote
about "Re[2]: SOT: Y2K and possible virus ":
Okay, this happened to become a lo-o-o-ng message, so to
those who aren't interested in Dr.Web: just skip it. Nothing TB-
related inside:-)
On install it seems to hang for ages. However its working to
make certain files for each of your hard disks, so let it go.
Seems to depend on the overall HDD space. I have much fewer
of it currently then you say you do, hence different results:-)
The main module, dr Web, has an English switch in the main menu.
Spider has English switch via the bar, right click.
BTW, Spider isn't designed for NT. It won't be installed if you
run NT. It's supposed to start to support NT in the future. Right
now, one might use Adinf under NT instead of Spider.
The third module, ie the Dos box which can pop up with warnings,
it's drwebwcl.exe, CLI version of the program.
has a setting (I think) in Drweb32.ini, which is in the drweb
directory.
[DOS]
LngFileName="Russian.DWL"
Just tested: delete this line, and it will switch to English:-) Sorry
for inconvenience, but I told you it was an offer for *Russians*:-
) Time to learn Russian, yeah?
Now having been to the website, to see whats on offer on has to go to
the Russian site and there is a release document 40 mentioned.
Following that link one sees this whole offer described and while not
perfectly clear there is also mendtioned ADINF which as far as I
understand is ALSO on free offer.
Yes.
I know Alex doesnt seem to use it, I do (g)
Correct. Didn't evem d/l it.
Now this in my opinion is quite an interesting and useful part of the
whole package as it checks every time what files where
Adinf is a separate program. It's made by the people other then
the Dr.Web team. While I *do* trust Dr.Web programmers, I
personally don't trust Adinf team much (a couple of years ago
this proggy used to be quite... well, buggy). Since given the
current power of Spider I don't need it, I keep refusing to
check how it works now. They say, it's pretty good when Word-
Macro attacks are concerned, but alas I don't use Word, too:-)
Anyway, I hope this helps others, as a product its recommended.
But you have to be able to read it (g) as I totally hung my system by
pressing the wrong button on that dos box.
Seems to be solved now:-)
What is not clear to me though as I donot see it mentioned anywhere,
is if this special version has to be registered as a downloaded free
copy or if one can just keep using it. Ie, does one apply for a
special key??
As for Dr.Web, this "christmas" version will work _literally_
forever, it doesn't require any kind of key and has no timelimits
built in. But note, that Dr.Web team releases *new* executable
about once in every 1.5 months, so in February this version will
no longer be the fresh one:-) Nevertheless, it will *still support*
the (always free) virus database updates *even then*. The
vendors release these updates weekly usually, then, when the
new version is released, these updates together with the old
main database form fresh "main virus database", which's
released together with the new version of the executables. After
that the "cycle" is repeated, i.e., new updates are released and
so on. So if you are not interested in the new features/fixes the
new versions of executables contain, you can safely d/load
only the updates (for free:-)). The format of the
database/updates isn't changed from version to version, hence
the older versions work well with the virus updates intended for
newer ones.
Well, hope you understood all this:-) Means, you can use the
program for free from now on:-))
As for the Adinf, I really don't know. Have to check this out for
you. But tomorrow:-)
That needs someone (Alex ??) who can read Russian properly!
My experience is 35 years old from my university period and alas was more
math/physics and chemistry papers reading oriented.
Other thing it may mention somewhere but I donot see sofar is that
every time you update the dignatures, a pair of files is added and
that if the basic database of the program changes all the updates it
doesnt need anymore as they are in the base, will get flagged as not
being able to be loaded during start. Its in the logs...
I've explained this above. Provided that they don't change the
format of databases, the updating process looks like:
version 1.15 with main virus database
- an update to the virus database (single file, usually a
couple of kbytes, that's put to the same directory and is
autoloaded by the program on startup)
- another update it's weekly
...
version 1.16 with it's own main database, which's in fact the
database of 1.15 plus all the updates to that one that were
released sofar
- again weekly updates.. till version 1.17:-)
So if you *pay* them for 1.16 when it's released, you'll no
longer need the updates to
