The Anti-virus Times

Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Dr.Web for Android also knows how to communicate with its master. And it also does this very rarely—only about serious matters.

The status panel containing the shield icon, which changes in appearance to indicate a device’s security status, is located at the top of the application's main window. Disturbing changes are good reason for the application to “talk” to you.

In addition, the Notification Panel is used to display messages.

You can toggle it on/off in the General settings section.

If the application detects threats, icons will appear on the Notification Panel:

• – If a threat has been detected by Dr.Web Scanner;
• – If a threat has been detected by the SpIDer Guard file monitor.

The notification will be displayed at the top of the screen.

If a threat is detected on devices running Android 5.0 and later, the notification panel will remain open until an action is applied to the malicious object or until the notification is swiped. Furthermore, under Android 5.0 and later, a threat notification will also appear on the lock screen, and you will be able to switch from it to the list of identified threats.

To make your interaction with Dr.Web even easier, you can also add a special widget to the main screen of your smartphone or tablet. You can use the widget to enable and disable the application. You can add it to the main screen the same way you add other widgets:

1. Open the list of available widgets
2. Select Dr.Web 1x1 (small).

   

   The widget indicating the anti-virus’s security status will appear on the screen.