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Qihoo 360 and Go

by baijum on 7/6/15, 5:41 PM with 45 comments

  • by xiaq on 7/6/15, 7:12 PM

    It is shocking to see a post from Qihoo 360 appear on the official golang blog. This company is notorious for at least the following:

    * Their flagship products, "360 Security", provides an alternative Windows-update facility; they take use of this to disguise another product of theirs, "360 Browser", as a Windows update: http://www.ipc.me/360-fa-bu-jia-xi-tong-bu-ding.html (Chinese source)

    * "360 Security" and "360 Browser" spies extensively on the user, including uploading "suspicious" files for their "cloud antivirus" service, uploading the browsing history: http://www.ce.cn/cysc/tech/07hlw/guonei/201302/26/t20130226_... http://tech.163.com/10/1231/17/6P8I1JPR000915BF.html (Chinese source)

    * "360 Security" was caught cheating in AV software tests: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2919554/tencent-qihoo-antimal.... More interestingly, after the denunciation from the test bodies, Qihoo 360 pretended that it quit the test voluntarily and announced that these tests are no longer suitable for "Internet-era AV software".

    * They recently announced a "pregnancy mode" in their router product, due to widespread concern about the effect of WiFi signals on the fetus.

    Their wrongdoings are uncountable.

  • by codezero on 7/6/15, 6:20 PM

    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?

  • by simplexion on 7/6/15, 11:18 PM

    We have a lot of Chinese students that come to the school I work at. All of them have this software and similar installed and it causes nothing but headaches.

    They believe they actually need it installed even when the school supplies them with a laptop that has all the necessary protection pre-installed.

  • by golang3 on 7/6/15, 9:48 PM

    It's a shame for Go's official blog to put a post from the shameless company.

    They should remove the article.

  • by cdelsolar on 7/7/15, 2:30 AM

    Can people please discuss the technology stack and the content of the blog post here? Thanks.

  • by li-ch on 7/7/15, 2:32 AM

    jsno2, jsno3, jsno4 are accounts created within an hour only to comment positively for Qihoo. Are there any rules on HN against this kind of behavior or can someone ban these fake accounts?

  • by honest_joe on 7/6/15, 6:28 PM

    I was told many times that Qihoo360 is crapware. Anyway I hope this brings our cultures together as technology should be apolitical.

  • by henryscala on 7/7/15, 12:41 AM

    I am a user of Qihoo 360 softwares like Cloud Storage and Mobile Phone management etc.

    In the past(Probably 6 ~ 7 years ago) Qihoo had bad reputation, because it once made its softwares like virus that the user cannot un-install them for competing with the competitors.

    After that, I think the company has changed its behaviors that it started emphasizing user experiences. And it also developed an anti-virus and anti-spyware software to be used by the user for free. The company changed the business of anti-virus and anti-spyware softwares in China.

    Now I think the company is an good innovative company in China.