Dr Web 5.x beta info

Interesting that with the new engine, the date says 11 October even though it was released 23 October....Does it really take that long to finish testing the engine?

 

Sometimes it takes even longer. Imagine the case when a bug fires one time from 1000, but kills a system to death. We may release it as is, in hope what people will never see the bug, or may spend a month finding the bug.

Slip dates vs quality.

 

I am aware that the extra time would be for testing, but I also noticed some of Dr.Web's technology partners test the engine even further and hence the derivative products get the Dr.Web engine update much later than Dr.Web does. I don't understand why this should happen if Dr.Web has already thoroughly tested the engine...

 

The one reason for this is a custom shell code which uses the engine in some specific way. Of course, this requires additional testing.

 

Has there been any more information on Dr Web 5.0 released yet? I ask only because I'm considering switching to Avira. Dr Web's memory issues are really starting to bug me. It seems that everything see,s to take more memory with Dr Web installed than with it not; winlogon.exe is using 45 meg right now and DrWebsch is using 25 meg, spidernt is using 20...etc. Why is this? Also, it seems like the physical RAM is being used more than the page file, which was not the case with every other AV I've used. Not even VC had these memory issues. I'm hoping that they will be fixed it 5.0, and that it will be released soon, else I'll have to move on (maybe). I don't mean to say "do this or else," but this is a serious problem that makes my entire system uses 4x as much resources as it should.

 

Memory usage from 500 megs, with Dr.Web Spidermail disabled:

http://i12.tinypic.com/2ajp8o1.png

Duh. I forgot about Dr.WebScd.exe - only 5.344 KB

 

My current memory usage, including Spidermail are:

Spiderml 13,756k
Spidernt 2,068k
Spidernt 2,228k
DrWebSch 4,668k

and winlogon is running at 2,412k on my laptop. Dr.Web seems pretty efficient to me. Perhaps your memory issue lies elsewhere ? maybe a conflict with some other security software you have running ?

 

scheduler - 5492kb
spiderguard - 2872kb
spiderguard - 2264kb
spidermail - 14520kb

25.1 mb usage here,

this thread was an interesting read, with an av expert saying scan speeds will be improved alot, this is nice, i also would like to see this.
also he stated, improved ram usage and heuristics, lets wait and see i suppose.

edit: winlogon is 1540kb here,

 

Wild guess here but maybe you are experiencing this.


tD

 

Yes, that seems to be exactly what is going on. But I thought the memory issue only occured after a scan was run. Is it not? I've had this issue for a long time and rarely run OD scans because of the scanner speed.

 

The memory "jump" occurs if you have the "scan memory" option enabled.
Thus, anytime you start the scanner the first thing it does is a memory scan and the memory usage column will increase accordingly. As has been explained here numerous times, this doesn't mean that much memory is being used. In fact, nothing has changed and it only seems like more memory is being used. If you view the VM column in your task manager you would see that virtual memory usage is unchanged. That is the important number you need to be concerned with.
The other important thing is... Is your computer sluggish and unresponsive because of this so-called memory leak or are you basing this purely on the numbers you see in the task manager? If your computer seems fine then, really, there is nothing to worry about and it is just the well- known "Jumping Spider" phenomena that you're experiencing.
Further, once you run the scanner if you want the memory usage column to return to "normal" then you will have to reboot in order to do that.

 

yep,

even when im scanning, the winlogon jumps to 44mb ram.

no idea what it is really, but nor do i care

 

version 5 will have major
enhancements:
- new technologies
- better performance - better scan speed
- new interface
- (possible) one control center to manage components instead
separate UI for each one


im gonna try and get some more info from dr.web, this sounds 'too cool' not to fish for information

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i had a false positive with my new laptop when i did a full scan, dell driver... linux modification, sent it to dr.web, and within the HOUR, replied with:

Your request has been analyzed. It was false alarm. Fixed.

Thank you for the cooperation.

within the hour, omg... i didnt think they would do it sooo quickly

 

Can you elaborate more on this?

- (possible) one control center to manage components instead
separate UI for each one
Very Nice...an often requested feature. Would this be similar in implementation to VC?

True. Thanks very much. Do you have any time frame? Also has the memory issue been discussed, and will version 5 have it fixed?

Just as a side note this is why I stay with Dr Web.

 

http://forum.drweb.com/viewtopic.php?t=4078

 

@CSJ
i will have to try dr web version 5 since the interface is about the only thing that isnt very good IMO.

 

yep, i class the interface as cheap and cheerfull. lol

reminds me too much of windows 95/98, brings back memorys

 

I have grown fond of the GUI and don't want to see it drastically changed. All I would like to see is all modules in one interface and not have to open 2 or 3 different ones. Oh yeah, a quarantine with a restore feature.
But I don't really ever look at it that much.

 

i cant wait for the new interface, it was due

you'd be suprised how a good / poor / basic interface can change sales of a product aswell.

 

To me it is the product, not the pretty face that matters. Guess that is why I like Avira to.

 

More off topic posts removed and a reminder that the subject at hand is "Dr Web 5.x beta info"

Bubba

 

Very true, and a darn good beta to.

 

yep, latest 4.xx beta is running fine here too.