Dr.Web Light

Dr.Web Light is Doctor Web's free, reduced-feature anti-virus for Android, offering on-demand and real-time file scanning with quarantine but without the URL filter, anti-theft and call/SMS filter of the paid Dr.Web Security Space. It is aimed at individual Android users who want basic malware scanning at no cost. A separate paid Dr.Web Light scanner for macOS is sold on the Mac App Store. Supported platforms are Android and macOS. The one capability recorded for it is malware detection. The stated market is Consumer.

Current Version

12.3.0

Product Page

free.drweb.com/drweb+android+light

Market

Consumer

Licence

Free

Price

Free

Record Created

2026-08-20

Last Updated

2026-10-10

Doctor Web sells the Dr.Web line, a scanner with an unusually long and unbroken lineage: Igor Danilov wrote the first version in 1992, and the company that sells it was established in 2003 around that engine. It is Russian, headquartered in Moscow, and privately held. Its distinguishing technical claim is independence. Dr.Web uses its own detection engine and its own virus laboratory rather than licensing anyone else's, and it is one of a small number of vendors of which that is true — most products in this index that are not from an engine owner are running someone else's technology under their own name. Households buy Dr.Web Security Space, with a version for mobile devices; organisations buy Dr.Web Enterprise Security Suite, which covers workstations, servers, mail gateways and mobile devices under one console, with Dr.Web KATANA for behavioural protection and a Linux line for servers. The company also sells to hosting providers and telecoms, where its products are administered on a subscription basis rather than per licence. Vendor page →

Website

drweb.com

Country

🇷🇺Russia

Headquarters

🇷🇺Moscow, Russia

Year Established

1992

Customers

20K organisations

Users

55M users

Revenue

≈ $12.6M (2021)