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360 Safeguard

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Developer(s)
  
Qihoo 360

Development status
  
Active

Initial release
  
July 17, 2008; 8 years ago (2008-07-17)

Stable release
  
11.0 (Microsoft Windows) 1.2.3 (mac OS) / September 28, 2016; 4 months ago (2016-09-28) (Microsoft Windows), September 22, 2016; 4 months ago (2016-09-22) (macOS)

Preview release
  
11.1 (Microsoft Windows) 14 October 2016; 3 months ago (2016-10-14)

Operating system
  
Microsoft Windows XP and later, macOS and Linux

360 Safeguard (Chinese: 360安全卫士) is a program developed by Qihoo 360, an IT company based in China. 360 Safeguard's focus is on stopping computer viruses, malware, and trojan horses, and providing security patches for Microsoft Windows. 360 Safeguard trojan horses scanner is cloud-based. A heuristics engine is built into the scanner.

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Features

  • Computer examination: check the computer's security or computer repair and other failures.
  • Virus scan: Find your computer Trojan suspected of the program, providing 360 cloud scan engine, system repair engine, QVM Ⅱ artificial intelligence engine, Avira engine, BitDefender engine.
  • Optimize acceleration: check whether the system needs to optimize, increase the speed of the computer. Provides one-click acceleration (startup items, scheduled tasks, application software services, system-critical services, network performance optimization).
  • Computer cleaning: to provide computer cleaning, Internet traces, computer plug-ins, the registry five clean-up.
  • Vulnerability Repair: Check your computer's vulnerability is in a normal state.

    • Dispute with Tencent

    In 2010, 360 Safeguard analyzed the QQ protocol and accused QQ of automatically scanning users' computers and of uploading their personal information to QQ's servers without users' consent. In response, Tencent called 360 itself malware and denied users with 360 installed access to some QQ services. The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information reprimanded both companies for "improper competition" and ordered them to come to an accord.

    Dispute with testing bodies

    On April 30, 2015 the three independent security testing bodies AV-Comparatives, AV-TEST and Virus Bulletin published a joint press release criticizing Qihoo 360 after they found that Qihoo 360 had submitted products for comparative which behaved significantly different from end user products. The products for comparative used an engine by Bitdefender, while the end user products use Qihoo 360's own QVM engine instead. The testing bodies claimed that the end user products would provide a considerably lower level of protection and a higher likelihood of false positives. As a consequence the three testing bodies revoked all certifications and rankings from earlier that year.

    Qihoo 360 denied cheating allegations claiming that the QVM engine developed by Qihoo 360 would be more effective in China.

    References

    360 Safeguard Wikipedia
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