Free treating utility Dr.Web CureIt! - reviews

Unfortunately, computer viruses are one of the biggest problems of modern users of computer systems and network administrators. Not only can they harm the operating system itself or the network, they are now also engaged in the theft of personal or confidential information. For protection, special anti-virus packages are used, but they are sometimes able to miss threats. Therefore, many users prefer to use portable utilities that can work with the installed antivirus. One of the most powerful and effective programs is Dr.Web CureIt !. Feedback about it testifies that this package behaves absolutely correctly in any system and in the presence of any third-party anti-virus software that can be present in the system as a full-time scanner.

Dr.Web CureIt! For Windows 7 and above and for mobile systems - what is it?

The application itself is a so-called portable version of the extended edition of the main package. You can install it in any system, including any version of Windows or mobile OS like Android (or rather, not even install it, but use it right away).

True, here you need to see the difference. Since this is a portable utility that can be used without installation even with a stationary anti-virus scanner in Windows, such things do not work on Android. This OS does not support the launch of portable programs. Therefore, Dr.Web CureIt! For "Android" will not be considered in this context.

Dr.Web CureIt!: Dr.Web CureIt!: Download and launch

Since the package itself is a Russian development, which is not inferior to the software products of Kaspersky Lab (incidentally, also a Russian developer) and is similar to most of them, it nevertheless has some significant differences.

As a rule, with rare exceptions, anti-viruses from Kaspersky are paid (except for a few simple utilities, limited in their capabilities). Unlike them, the "treating" utility Dr.Web CureIt! Is available for download for free, and as a portable version (how to work with it, will be told a little later). As it is already clear, simply download the program or archive from the official site, and then launch the executable file. At the same time, the system can request the presence of administrator rights (with this you have to agree or initially open an EXE-file on behalf of the administrator).

What threats does the antivirus determine?

Now a few words about viruses and threats that Dr.Web CureIt! Can determine (or cure). Feedback from users and experts in this field indicate that the portable application completely calmly identifies and isolates viruses of different directions of action.

Among the first and most important threats that Dr.Web CureIt! Detects, it is worth highlighting the following:

• Viruses;
• Worms;
• Trojans;
• Rootkits;
• Advertising, comic and spyware;
• Burglars of the system and personal data;
• Potentially unwanted or dangerous applications.

If the first is clear, then the last point can be argued. The fact is that sometimes there can be problems. Dr.Web Anti-Virus CureIt! Begins to behave completely inadequately, resembling Windows Defender and SmartScreen, which start blocking the installation or launch of applications, meaning a dubious publisher, the lack of a digital signature or certificate (or an expired publisher certificate), etc.

System requirements

As for the software environment and "hardware", on which Dr.Web CureIt can work! For Windows 10, everything is modest here. For a normal start and correct operation of the portable application itself, only a 2-core processor supporting the i686 and higher architecture, free disk space of 160 MB and free RAM of 360 MB are needed. By the way, in order to avoid conflicts immediately before using the utility you need to disable all available in the system optimizer programs.

In some cases, when you start the application, you may receive a message about the absence of important updates to the system itself. They need to be installed using the same Windows Update Center, where you have to set the search for updates in the manual mode (the line on the left in the English version of Check for Updates). After they are found, it remains only to integrate them into the system and after restarting, run the utility again.

Test the program

It is also interesting that the developer himself suggests checking the Dr.Web CureIt! Program. Feedback from users who have contacted the site test.com, where you can see exactly how the antivirus program will behave in this configuration, say a lot. It is enough to look at at least statistics.

Actually, the test program itself, even if loaded on a computer, is a regular executable file with a .com extension, the main text of which contains 64 bits.

A technique for detecting potential threats

The utility itself uses several basic methods by which it is possible to judge the penetration of a threat into the system:

• Comparison of signatures (reconciliation with the database of the structure of viruses);
• Analysis of the execution of the virus code (behavioral analysis);
• Heuristic analysis (determination of the alleged signs of the virus on the basis of confirmed studies);
• Use of the execution emulator (post-behavioral analysis).

Statistics

When a potential threat is detected, the application sends data for analysis to its own servers. It's obvious.

However, very few people know that initially when the utility starts and if there is an active Internet connection, information on the system configuration is sent first to the developer resource. That is, the developer of this anti-virus software receives information about your processor, RAM, the installed operating system with all the passwords and registration codes, the settings of the parameters of the system limiters like a firewall, smart screen or defender, etc. Now think how insecure Be running Dr.Web CureIt !. Reviews of users, by the way, indicate the same. It turns out after all what? Not only that the tenth version of Windows spies as it can, so also the antivirus package deals with the same.

Using the utility in practice

As for practical application, everything is simple. Run the executable file from the unpacked archive (if it was downloaded in this form), then it will be offered to install the latest version of the program. For the anti-virus Dr.Web CureIt! The latest version is available directly from the start window.

If this approach is not something that the user is comfortable with, you can contact the official developer's site and download the update there (by the way, as well as updating the signature database).

Application and database update questions

As a rule, when the Internet connection is established, the program first starts the module for its own update (application components and its libraries with creation of folders for updating anti-virus databases and quarantine).

And only then there is an update of the virus signature databases. And then, after all, many users swear that, they say, launched a portable scanner, but it slows down. Understand: as long as the program does not update its own modules or database about recently appeared viruses, you can not even dream about total cleaning from all known threats.

conclusions

In general (this is recognized by everyone, even Kaspersky Lab), this utility in its portable form is one of the most powerful tools for detecting, isolating or destroying threats of any type.

However, if the program copes with viruses, then talk about the impact on the computer system of mucks like Malware and Adware is not necessary. This is understandable - the utility itself is not designed for this, but it's a pity. No, of course, it is able to block certain elements of such executable applets, but not all of them. In this respect, the use of the program as a basic protective product looks very peculiar. It can and should be used occasionally, but you just do not need to get involved in it for the simple reason that the program can not always update databases in time, which causes an increased load on network resources (especially for those users who have There is limited traffic). In other cases this also does not matter, but downloading updates of the program itself or its databases can take quite a long time.

By the way, to remove Dr.Web CureIt! From a stationary local or network computer is not so simple. For this, of course, you do not need to be a system administrator, but you still need some necessary knowledge.