Qihoo 360 and Go

Re:Qihoo 360 and Go by codezero on Monday July 06, 2015 @02:20PM (#9841068)

This is slightly off topic, but when my dad couldn't install his printer, he called a random tech company online....

They basically requested full access to his computer, for about $99, and set up his printer, but they also installed a bunch of software, one of the things they installed was Qihoo 360.

This wasn't requested, and it made me wonder whether or not Qihoo pays a bounty for each install to these random companies.

It made me really suspicious of the software.

Has anyone had any experience with their tools?

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Re:Qihoo 360 and Go by xiaq on Monday July 06, 2015 @02:42PM (#9841266)

Qihoo 360 is very successful in starting a hype in China and some tech company believe that installing it is good practice.

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Re:Qihoo 360 and Go by codezero on Monday July 06, 2015 @02:43PM (#9841270)

Why do they believe that? What does it offer that other tools don't?

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Re:Qihoo 360 and Go by xiaq on Monday July 06, 2015 @02:56PM (#9841372)

It's been some years since I last used it, but some of the features are:

1) a repository of common (Chinese) software that you can install directly;

2) an alternative windows-update service that seems to work faster than windows's own;

3) a "janitor" tool, for inspecting and disabling auto-boot software, removing software otherwise tricky to remove, and removing temporary files;

4) a driver searching and matching tool that works much better than windows's own, which never worked for me.

I was a bit emotional in my last comment, since honestly, there has been some decent work that went into this software. They also started to integrate free antivirus software at some point, but I have heard a lot of bad things about it.

However, Qihoo 360 is notorious for spying on the user (there are some hard evidences), offering bogus functionality (placebo "optimizations"), taking advantage of the user in their "promotions" of other products from the company (a big, green, "install 360 browser now" button vs. a little, grey "no"), and cooperating with the authority on Internet censorship. It has become very unpopular among the tech-savvy people in China.

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Re:Qihoo 360 and Go by codezero on Monday July 06, 2015 @03:33PM (#9841617)

Ok. So doesn't hard evidence of spying invalidate all possible utility?

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Re:Qihoo 360 and Go by tormeh on Monday July 06, 2015 @05:27PM (#9842296)

To paraphrase: You must be new to humanity.

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Re:Qihoo 360 and Go by codezero on Monday July 06, 2015 @06:58PM (#9842686)

I know people make trade offs, if that's what you're implying.

Given that a lot of security software that isn't openly assumed to be spying on you is available, I'm asking why people would choose this software.

Maybe I'm missing something, if so, I apologize for being thick.

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Re:Qihoo 360 and Go by pki on Monday July 06, 2015 @02:52PM (#9841339)

Absolutely nothing, it offers crap and it is crap. Just there is standard set every mainland chinese uses (if they're not expats), I often see QQ, PPStream (which at one point ran an open unauthenticated SOCKS? proxy to the world), 360 Antivirus/Suite (which is apparently awful), etc

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Re:Qihoo 360 and Go by no4clipper on Monday July 06, 2015 @09:52PM (#9843219)

Show us some "non-crap" software/websites/game that you produced.

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Re:Qihoo 360 and Go by swuecho on Monday July 06, 2015 @05:12PM (#9842222)

when my friends want me to clean his/her computer(too many autostart programs and unnecessary softwares installed), I usually install 360 security. It is simply the easiest to use and do not have free equivalent. It may do some aggressive things, but that is the price if you want the good part.

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Re:Qihoo 360 and Go by simplexion on Monday July 06, 2015 @07:21PM (#9842769)

Or you know... just use the in-built security in Windows 8.1. It's fun telling people they don't actually need to install a free AV anymore. They never believe you.

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Re:Qihoo 360 and Go by codezero on Monday July 06, 2015 @07:00PM (#9842693)

What are the specific features it has that other tools don't have?

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Re:Qihoo 360 and Go by swuecho on Monday July 06, 2015 @07:50PM (#9842842)

see xiaoq's reply above

3) a "janitor" tool, for inspecting and disabling auto-boot software, removing software otherwise tricky to remove, and removing temporary files;

I need this feature especially.

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Re:Qihoo 360 and Go by projct on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @03:53PM (#9854203)

Windows has the auto-boot disabling built in - msconfig in XP and above, or it's built into task manager on 8 and 8.1.

Removing tricky software can be done by crap cleaner and/or hijackthis

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Re:Qihoo 360 and Go by kevin_thibedeau on Monday July 06, 2015 @08:09PM (#9842899)

There are other legitimate free tools that do that.

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Re:Qihoo 360 and Go by swuecho on Monday July 06, 2015 @09:23PM (#9843143)

suggestion?

it is all about easy to use.

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Re:Qihoo 360 and Go by verroq on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @02:36AM (#9843924)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/hjt/

Is pretty standard.

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Re:Qihoo 360 and Go by codezero on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @12:50AM (#9843687)

That is most definitely not what it is all about.

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