OREANDA-NEWS. On 05 May 2009 Doctor Web — the leader on the Russian IT security services market – announced the deployment of Dr.Web AV-Desk by another branch of STREAM-TV – the ISP operating in several regions of Russia. Starting in April 2009 Dr.Web anti-virus service becomes available to subscribers of STREAM-TV in the Sverdlovsk region and Yekaterinburg.

Cooperation between Doctor Web and STREAM-TV started in 2008 when Dr.Web AV-Desk was deployed by the ISP’s branch offices in Perm and Izhevsk. The service has been gaining popularity among its subscribers ever since.

Benefits for providers deploying Dr.Web AV-Desk are obvious. It has already allows more than 80 providers in Russia and other countries to reduce malicious activities in their networks and workload of their helpdesks. Besides, a new highly-demanded service gives the provider an edge over its competitors. Subscribers don’t need to search for the best anti-virus product available on the market. Instead they sign up for the new service on the web-site of the provider and download an installer that installs all required software and establishes connection to the anti-virus server.

About Dr.Web AV-Desk

Doctor Web offered an anti-virus as a service on the Russian market in 2007.

Deployment of Dr.Web AV-Desk allows subscribers of a service provider to use Dr.Web anti-virus as a service: choose a desired subscription period, renew their subscription automatically and therefore plan how much they are going to spend on anti-virus security. Providing an anti-virus as a service ensures its instant delivery and easy management of a subscription for home and business users.

More than eighty providers already deliver the Dr.Web anti-virus service in more than thirty regions of Russia and also in the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Bulgaria and Estonia. Following results shown by the service in 2007 it was named the best product-service by PC Magazine Russia. In September 2008 Dr.Web AV-Desk was awarded the large golden medal of the Siberian Fair as an original technical and telecom solution.