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For those who may not remember or may not have heard, QiHoo is the company behind the most popular scam browsers in the world: Qihoo 360 Secure. It was one of t
by JohnTHaller 10y ago
For those who may not remember or may not have heard, QiHoo is the company behind the most popular scam browsers in the world: Qihoo 360 Secure. It was one of the most popular browsers in China with 28% of the market a few years ago. It used an IE logo colored green, force-uninstalled competing browsers by claiming they were unsafe, made uninstallation so difficult you'd often have to re-image the machine, breaks SSL, can expose user passwords, etc.
Remember, this is a "security" company.
It's rather fascinating: https://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/qihoo-360-secure-the-most-popular-browser-youve-never-heard-of--cms-24074 https://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/qihoo-360-secure-the...
Personally, I wouldn't trust anything this "security" company is connected with anywhere need my devices, software, or business.
- jedberg 10y agoAnd yet, unless you go through the effort of removing every trusted CA from your browser, you implicitly trust them because Mozilla/Google/etc. do. And thus why the CA system is broken in a nutshell.
- mixedCase 10y ago>And thus why the CA system is broken in a nutshell. I wouldn't call it broken. From what I see on Linux and Windows, Chrom[e|ium] relies on the system's trusted certificates. You always have the last says on who's in and who's out. EDIT: Just checked, the Chromium-specific trusted CAs can be revoked through its configuration interface, doesn't just rely on system certs. Important detail, but still, user has the last word.
- arkydon 10y agoAlso accused of gaming antivirus tests http://www.pcworld.com/article/2919554/tencent-qihoo-antimalware-firms-are-accused-of-cheating-stripped-of-rankings-in-antivirus-tests.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/2919554/tencent-qihoo-antimal...
- nsgi 10y agoAlso the sixth browser vendor in the CAB forum.