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Qihoo 360 is very successful in starting a hype in China and some tech company believe that installing it is good practice.
by xiaq 11y ago
Qihoo 360 is very successful in starting a hype in China and some tech company believe that installing it is good practice.
- codezero 11y agoWhy do they believe that? What does it offer that other tools don't?
- pki 11y agoAbsolutely 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
- no4clipper 11y agoShow us some "non-crap" software/websites/game that you produced.
- xiaq 11y agoIt'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.
- codezero 11y agoOk. So doesn't hard evidence of spying invalidate all possible utility?
- tormeh 11y agoTo paraphrase: You must be new to humanity.
- codezero 11y agoI 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.
- swuecho 11y agowhen 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.
- codezero 11y agoWhat are the specific features it has that other tools don't have?
- swuecho 11y agosee 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.
- kevin_thibedeau 11y agoThere are other legitimate free tools that do that.
- projct 11y ago