Doctor Web releases its new anti-virus product for mobile devices Dr.Web for Android. While popularity of Android is growing steadily, the experience shows that a growing interest in a certain operating system comes along with the increasing number of malicious programs designed to infect it. The release of Dr.Web for Androlid is a logical step towards expanding the Dr.Web product line aiming to provide protection from cyber-threats for all popular operating systems including mobile platforms.

July 2010 saw the discovery of a large population of Trojan.Stuxnet programs in the wild. These malicious programs take advantage of an alternative autorun mechanism to start from removable media and also make use of digital signatures stolen from popular software developers. It’s also become the norm for malware to use bootkit technologies. Meanwhile, in the face of effective countermeasures, Windows blockers are on the decline, and now criminals are searching for alternatives to paid short messages.

Doctor Web updated a number of components included in Dr.Web products from the series 6 for single user and server products for Windows (32- and 64-bit). The update also provides several fixes and improvements. Most significant changes have been done to three components of the anti-virus control module (agent), HTTP-monitor and self-protection module.