Talk:Qihoo 360

Seems unrelated to Xinjiang
It's unsupported by the current reference: https://apnews.com/article/adc1a70855c1bc82256e6b0b478ce5bd


 * Other companies cited Friday “represent a significant risk of supporting procurement of items for military end-use in China,” the Commerce Department said. The most prominent name on that list is Qihoo 360, a major supplier of anti-virus software and a web browser.

Two lists were published that day: https://sanctionsnews.bakermckenzie.com/us-government-adds-thirty-three-entities-located-in-china-hong-kong-and-cayman-islands-to-the-entity-list/


 * The XUAR Designees:
 * The Military Designees:
 * Qihoo 360 Technology Company — Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.80.123.236 (talk) 12:59, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Qihoo 360 Technology Company — Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.80.123.236 (talk) 12:59, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

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what does the word qihoo mean?

Some of the language sounds like ad-copy. Wikipedia articles are not billboards. JohndanR (talk) 01:57, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
 * it's a virus company. Dark Liberty (talk) 07:05, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

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Update on my post below; I have contacted them with a bunch of questions; they were kind enough to respond within one day; I will include the response now:

Thank you for your support to 360 Total Security.

360 Total Security is a holistic solution that addresses all the security needs of a desktop computer user. What makes it stand out from conventional antivirus products, is its array of built-in utilities to optimize the PC, such as the performance enhancer, startup booster and the system clean-up utility.And it integrated with 360 Cloud Scan Engine, System Repair Engine, QVMII AI Engine and even BitDefender Engine and Avira Engine, these engines will be enough to protect most users from viruses.At last, 360 Total Security is totally free forever.

The reason why 360 Total Security is free is that Qihoo 360 is China's largest Internet security service provider, and has the world's largest user base. Qihoo 360 challenged conventional wisdom by offering free antivirus software with innovative cloud technology, thus rapidly earning the trust of 500 million users and extending its market scope to US$10 billion. Our Vision & Values is To become the most respected Internet security services company in the world, To put customers FIRST and To strive for constant innovation. Revenue comes from sharing user traffic with partners atop the 360 open platform. User base built from distribution of 360 free software and services. Now, Qihoo 360 is promoting 360 open platform to overseas market and will make profit from the platform and model of Search, Navigation, Game and Advertisement. Click to read our financial reports. (link )

And about the forum,you could follow our Google+ link, or our Facebook link to discuss your problem.

So again, thank you and please feel free to contact us anytime you have any question or suggestion about our product. , which for me is pretty good. I will go with there program for now; someone else is welcome to follow up on notes here. Though as I do not get to internet very often; I can not. Hope this helps some other people. . Data-see-digital-note (talk) 02:43, 14 May 2015 (UTC) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Hi there ---

Notes from a friend trying to find out about this company. Will continue here; some people can help; then can add history profile from speculative news and sources... and come up with some reiable info.

Company product seems good; though digging about the company; seems hazy. Please read 15 min of digging below. Thanks.

1. notes from link

2010 - 2014 Qihoo 360 Loses In Court Again - Yesterday, China’s Qihoo 360 took another blow from the country’s legal system: the Supreme People’s Court has rejected Qihoo’s appeal of the initial verdict of a Tencent lawsuit against Qihoo for unfair competition, and has ordered Qihoo to pay Tencent a sum of RMB 5 million (about $800,000). The news comes at an interesting time, having been released on the same day that Chinese security firm Qihoo 360’s US$400 million investment in a joint venture with Coolpad was confirmed. Qihoo has previously been accused of misleading users in its own ways, and to some this news may suggest that the new Qihoo-Coolpad joint venture is not to be trusted.

note: plus a bunch of links on this one above also

2. notes from link

However, controversy has dogged Qihoo for years. In February 2012 all of its products were kicked off iTunes and a year later the Chinese government slapped the firm with an official warning after alleging unfair competition.

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One of Tencent’s products is a popular instant messenger application — QQ IM. Qihoo is a leading Chinese Internet security software provider. Tencent offers security services through QQ Doctor to QQ IM users. In 2010, Qihoo launched a competing security software to QQ IM users — 360 Guard, which blocked QQ IM’s pop-up ads. Qihoo marketed 360 as a software to protect QQ users from Tencent’s unauthorized access to their personal data.

4. notes from link Citron explores today a company with many similarities, Qihoo 360 (NYSE:QIHU). We estimate that it is headed to $5 per share, more than 75% below its current trading range.

5. notes from link

May 2015 Chinese antivirus company Qihoo 360 said it would stop taking part in tests conducted by three major antivirus labs that had accused the company of trying to manipulate the testing process.

In a statement, Qihoo denied that it had shipped a different version of its security software to the testing companies than the one supplied to its customers.

The spat began when the testing companies, AV-Comparatives of Austria, Germany’s AV-Test and Virus Bulletin of the UK said in a statement that the version of its software that Qihoo provided for testing uses an antivirus engine licensed from Bitdefender, while the version shipped to consumers uses Qihoo’s own QVM engine.

That 'would provide a considerably lower level of protection and a higher likelihood of false positives”, the companies said.'

Data-see-digital-note (talk) 14:13, 12 May 2015 (UTC)


 * I have added some of this in the Controversy section. Winjay (talk) 13:24, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

WoSign, StartCom and Mozilla
I added some prose summarising Mozilla's own summary of the state-of-play in this episode in the generally unsavoury history of PKI as an industry. I've provided only one cite: Mozilla's own document, containing the criticisms I say they make, as well as the threats they are uttering. I think that's enough for now; but there's plenty more secondary sources.

Qihoo 360 is a big company, and their new subsidiary WoSign is a small part of their business. But unfortunately neither Qihoo nor WoSign have been upfront about this chain of acquisitions, as is required for all browser-trusted CAs.

You could say that Mozilla document is a primary source; but if you read the discussions in Google Groups: e.g. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.security.policy/0pqpLJ_lCJQ, you will see that the Mozilla document is a pretty fair summary of the discussions that have been going on over what has been going on - and so I claim that it's secondary, because it's a well-informed summary of discussions that have been taking place in various other online forums (mainly Google Groups).

They may well be badly-expressed (go ahead and improve!), but I think all my remarks can be backed-up with remarks from Mozilla reps in that document.

NOTE: there are allegations online that both Qihoo 360 and WoSign have a history of uttering legal threats against people who criticise them. I have no idea whether these allegations are true. I think there is much more of interest in this matter, but I suggest proceeding with caution, and being especially scrupulous about citing and sources.

NOTE: that document I cited could disappear: I think that when Mozilla update it, it gets a new URL. How can I get a permalink for a GD document, that will survive the unpublishing of the document by its owner?

MrDemeanour (talk) 18:37, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

The "History" sector is unclear about things that happened before 2012
For what I know, Qihoo 360 is founded long before 2012. In my memory the first icon they used with 360 Safeguard is a Swiss army knife icon painted green... --111.163.122.52 (talk) 13:13, 15 January 2019 (UTC)