Operating Principles

The component is designed to communicate with the Dr.Web Cloud service of the Doctor Web company to scan contents of a specified file for threats unknown to local Dr.Web Scanning Engine and to check whether a specified URL belongs to any of the categories of web resources predefined by the Doctor Web company. Furthermore, the component periodically sends the statistics on detection of infected files and information about the operating system, on which Dr.Web Security Space is run, to the Dr.Web Cloud service.

Dr.Web CloudD is automatically run by the configuration daemon upon receiving a command from the user or some component of Dr.Web Security Space.

This component is used for communicating with Dr.Web Cloud by the SpIDer Gate component, which monitors network traffic and scans URLs, for scanning of URLs requested by the user.

Furthermore, the component is used while scanning files on demand of the Dr.Web Ctl tool designed to manage Dr.Web Security Space from the command line (the tool is started with the drweb-ctl command). Upon detection of threats, Dr.Web Scanning Engine sends a report about the file to Dr.Web Cloud.