November 7, 2008

Doctor Web – a Russian developer of IT security tools branded Dr.Web – announces introduction of the Dr.Web anti-virus service by ADVANTAGE TELECOM providing Internet in cities and towns to the north of Moscow. Since November customers of the ISP will be using the service free of charge for two months.

ADVANTAGE TELECOM is a leader on the telecom market in several towns north of Moscow. Meainwhile, aiming to increase loyalty of existing customers and attract new ones the company expands the list of available services offered to customers along with access to the Internet.

Here anti-virus security is one of the key issues. A user unaware of the threat can also endanger others especially if a network and its hosts are not protected by an anti-virus. The result is disrupted connection to the Internet and growing annoyance of customers who can’t get any help from the support service of an ISP.

Dr.Web AV-Desk helps Advantage Telecom avoid such problems. The deployment of the Internet service brings comprehensive anti-virus protection to all its subscribers who will be using the service free of charge for two months.

“Safe Internet surfing for subscribers is our main objective. Striving for better security we adopt best technologies provided by the industry. That’s why we adopted Dr.Web AV-Desk that shows perfect results protecting a large number of users against various types of malicious programs”, Alexei Shmonov, the IT-director of ADVANTAGE TELECOM commented upon preliminary results of the deployment.

About Dr.Web AV-Desk
The Internet service was developed by Doctor Web in 2007. It allows service providers to deliver the anti-virus protection service powered by Dr.Web for Windows to an unlimited number of subscribers. A service provider also receives a tool for centralized management of the delivery process. Deployment of Dr.Web AV-Desk gives subscribers an opportunity to use the anti-virus from Doctor Web as a service: select a desired subscription term (1-36 months) and plan their expenses on anti-virus protection. The innovative model that turns information security software into a service ensures instant delivery of an anti-virus making it extremely easy to renew for any user regardless of his geographical location.

More than forty provider companies have already deployed Dr.Web AV-Desk in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Estonia. Following results shown by the service in 2007 it was named the best product-service by PC Magazine Russia. In September 2008 Dr.Web AV-Desk was awarded the large golden medal of the Siberian Fair as an original technical and telecom solutions.