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Date : April 26, 2001
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Doctor Web celebrates its 9th anniversary!

On April 24, 2001 Doctor Web, a popular Russian antivirus program, has celebrated its 9th anniversary. The development started with Spider program. Tireless Spider cured viruses caught in the web "set" by this antivirus guard for DOS. Since then stylised spider became a logo of the programs created under Igor Daniloff's direction.

Soon Web, a doctor program (scanner), was added to Spider guard. Together they formed Spider's Web antivirus system.

Two years later, after a serious alteration, Web doctor program got its present name Doctor Web. The word Doctor reveals the very essence of the program created to cure all kinds of computer viruses, and the previous name left the word Web. However, with the development of the World Wide Web the name of the program - Doctor Web - obtained a new meaning, World Wide Web Doctor. This new name fully corresponds to the present substance of Doctor Web antivirus program.

Igor Daniloff created his first antivirus program, Spider after he had read Computer virusology, a thorough work by Nikolai Bezroukov (Kiev, 1991). "It should be done the other way", - Igor said to himself - and after a sleepless night the first Spider version appeared. The most important idea - that of emulation of the program running process - was absolutely new at that time (year 1992), and now it is essential for many well-known antivirus programs.

The program was sent by Igor Daniloff to a European competition 1&1 that was held for the countries of the Eastern Europe in 1993 in order to find interesting program products and technologies. And he won! The young gifted programmer was awarded a fully paid booth at the biggest international computer exhibition CeBIT-1993 in Hannover. At the exhibition Igor Daniloff met the leading specialists in the field of computer virusology and entered the coterie of selected persons.

Also that year at the conference held in Abrau-Durso (Russia) Igor Daniloff made the acquaintance of DialogueScience representatives. The fruit of the acquaintance was an agreement set in 1994, and since then DialogueScience and Doctor Web work together!

The major stages of Doctor Web development:

Today, wishing Doctor Web a happy birthday, we are glad to introduce the following novelties: And now Doctor Web is rapidly progressing. Last year new technologies have been realised in the program, new antivirus programs have been created on the basis of Doctor Web engine, the program interface has been considerably improved, the program has been localised for French, Spanish, Polish, Chinese, Slovakian, Bulgarian languages (in addition to the English, Russian and German versions available before).

The results Doctor Web shows in various international tests are permanently high. On five separate occasions, Virus Bulletin, an authoritative international magazine, has awarded Doctor Web the prestigious "Virus Bulletin 100%" prizes. One can be awarded this prize only if both scanner and guard have detected all the viruses registered on users' computers and added to the test set.

In the near future Igor Daniloff's Antivirus Lab and DialogueScience plans to release a few new products: a centralised Doctor Web family products managing system within a local net, Doctor Web for Windows NT/2000 (server), Doctor Web for Sun Solaris, Doctor Web for Lotus Notes/Domino. Also there are plans to develop an antivirus for Windows CE and Palm.

Its 10th anniversary Doctor Web will meet with a new set of program decisions and technologies. But at the same time Doctor Web will remain reliable and easy in use, preserving the qualities it has already proved to have.

We wish Igor Daniloff and his developer team a happy 9th anniversary of Doctor Web!

DialogueScience Information Service
E-mail: antivir@DIALS.ru
http://www.antivir.ru

Supplement 1: at the COMTEK-2001 exhibition DialogueScience presents a new business initiative.

From May, 2001 DialogueScience shifts to a new indirect sales system oriented to the major distributors. A new product line includes boxes "Doctor Web for Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000" with 1 or 2 year subscription and licences giving the right to install and use the program to 1, 5 or 10 computers. Licence packages for 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 computers with 1 or 2 year subscription will be offered. In addition to such basic packages there will be a possibility to buy the required number of licences and corresponding media packages with documentation and programs on CD-ROM.

OEM sets for computer technical equipment suppliers are offered separately. Such a set includes a CD-ROM with program distributive and a licence giving the right to use it.

The first major distributor to sign a contract with DialogueScience and to distribute the new antivirus program product line was TopS - a leading Russian software distributor dealing with Microsoft, Adobe and other universally famous companies.

Your Software firm was the first to become an authorised DialogueScience's dealer.

Supplement 2: the most significant results achieved by DialogueScience, Inc on foreign markets during the last year.

September, 2000 - a contract with Kingsoft, a Chinese firm (www.kingsoft.com), for using the Doctor Web engine in a Chinese antivirus program iDuba.net (www.iduba.net). In November, 2000 the first version of the program iDuba.net was released using two engines - a Chinese one and Doctor Web engine - for searching and curing virus attack. Another similar contract (on licensing the Doctor Web engine) was signed in 1999 with NPO "Mashinostroenie", a Russian scientific industrial company, for using the Doctor Web program engine in the document circulation system 'Sapiens' already in use in the Ministry of Economics of the Russian Federation. At the beginning of the year 2001 the Doctor Web engine was also licensed by a German firm 'Ahead' for using it in a popular program product Nero.

In November, 2000 a contract on Doctor Web Spanish localisation and sale in Spain was signed with a Spanish firm 'Lyssoft' at SIMO-2000 exhibition in Madrid.

In February, 2001 a contract was signed with a Slovakian firm AVIR (www.avir.sk) for Doctor Web Slovakian localisation, to be for sale in Slovakia and Czech Republic.

In March, 2001 a contract on Doctor Web Chinese localisation and distribution in Taiwan and China was signed with a Taiwan firm 'MacServe' at CeBIT-2001 exhibition. Starting from March, 2001 there is a www.drweb.com.tw server functioning in Chinese and English.

In March, 2001 at the same CeBIT-2001 exhibition a contract for Doctor Web localisation in Polish and distribution within Poland was signed with a Polish firm 'DrWeb Poland'. In March, 2001 a new site www.drweb.com.pl in Polish was opened.

From May, 2001 an agreement with a well-known businessman Ian Hale (UK) on world-wide Doctor Web distribution comes into force.

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