Components updated in Dr.Web 11.5 products for Windows

June 7, 2018

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web has updated Dr.Web Net filtering Service (11.5.1.05230), Dr.Web Scanning Engine (11.5.1.201805310), Dr.Web Anti-rootkit API (11.5.1.201806010), the self-defence module Dr.Web Protection for Windows (11.05.01.06020), the Dr.Web Control Service (11.5.1.06051), SpIDer Agent for Windows (11.5.1.06051) and Dr.Web Firewall for Windows (11.5.2.06051) in Dr.Web 11.5 products for Windows. The update delivers minor tweaks and fixes for known issues.

Changes made to Dr.Web Net filtering Service:

• the service is now more stable when the databases used by the Parental Control and the HTTP monitor SpIDer Gate are being downloaded.

Changes made to Dr.Web Scanning Engine:

• the anti-rootkit search routines and malware-curing routines in the RAM have been optimised.

Changes made to Dr.Web Anti-rootkit API:

• an issue that might cause an infinite loop during the scanning process has been resolved.

Changes made to Dr.Web Protection for Windows:

• a Windows start-up problem on computers with the Wufuc 0.8.0.143 utility has been eliminated.

Changes made to SpIDer Agent for Windows and Dr.Web Control Service:

• an issue has been corrected that caused the Agent's settings to open incorrectly when a large number of firewall rules had been defined.

Changes made to Dr.Web Firewall for Windows:

• an error causing a blocking failure in the "Block unknown connections" mode has been corrected;
• an issue causing the Firewall to terminate abnormally, resulting in network access being blocked for applications, has been fixed.

The update will be performed automatically. However, a system restart will be required.

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