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Con Banned from AV-Tests for cheating
Qihoo was ruled out by antivirus testing companies for cheating when its antivirus used the Bitdefender engine instead of the QVM engine itself (although the public version of this antivirus comes with the Bitdefender engine disabled and QVM enabled, providing much less security than it promised).
Con A product from China
China does not respect user privacy.
China is known for its continuous monitoring of the internet and its censorship. The Chinese government employs 2 million people to control the Internet and recently tried to force foreign technology companies to implement backdoors in their products, allowing them to spy and monitor information that travels or is stored there.
In addition, the Chinese government has forced them to provide the encryption key used in their products, that is, the transmission of encrypted information can be intercepted and read as if it were a common insecure connection. This is all necessary because the Chinese government is not concerned with the privacy of its citizens and, it seems, this also applies to people of any nationality.
Con Qihoo is not a company focused on cybersecurity, but instead on profit
The 360 Total Security creator’s profit comes from selling advertising space on its portal and sharing the profit with independent game developers. The company recently launched a search portal to compete with Baidu. Qihoo has a history of using backdoor in its products: in 2010 Qihoo was accused of including a backdoor in Qihoo 360 (the company it accused published the code obtained by reverse engineering proving this), in 2012 it was accused of using backdoor in its pre-installed apps on smartphones (because of that Huawei canceled the partnership with them) and in 2013 the company was accused of using backdoors in its antivirus to steal data from users and install DLLs on Windows without their consent. To close with a “golden key”, Qihoo shamelessly collects private data from Internet users in 360 Total Security
Con User data compromissed
According to Qihoo Privacy Policy, 360 can take from you:
Name,
Address,
Email address,
Business address,
Telephone,
Date of birth,
Breed,
Sex,
Sexual orientation,
Social Security number,
Social media account,
Contacts,
Conversation logs,
Email messages,
Browser searches,
History of visited sites,
Your bank details and passwords,
Your credit card statement,
Bank transaction history,
Purchases historic,
Your photo.