Dr.Web AV-Desk project history

Dr.Web AV-Desk is an innovative Internet service created by Doctor Web. Its first test launch was conducted in November 2007 at servers of one of the largest providers in Moscow – Corbina Telecom.

Dr.Web AV-Desk is the third implementation of the software product that Dr.Web programmers lead by Igor Danilov started in 2002 for the Russian government.

Programmers had been given a very difficult and important task — developing anti-virus software for workstations and servers that would feature centralized administration tool and function in the State Election system. One of the system components (control centre) was to be deployed in Central Election Commission of Russia and another one (to protect workstations) — in regional offices of the GAS "Vybory" (Elections) network which are numbered in thousands. The project (the first public beta) was delivered to a state panel of experts at the beginning of 2003. The first installation was performed in the testing environment of “Voskhod” research institute which was the main developer of State Election system. The testing was successful and the solution was deployed in the GAS "Vybory" system in the autumn of the same year. It has been successfully performing required tasks in the system ever since.

August 19, 2004 saw another birth of the product. This time it came as a solution for the anti-virus consumer market branded as Dr.Web Enterprise Suite. Soon it has become the "blue chip" among Dr.Web products.

Time is passing by and the the product’s potential appears to be unlimited. Now we give it another look and see it as Dr.Web AV-Desk!