Qihoo 360 and Go

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by baijum • 11 years ago

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codezero6• 11 years ago

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?

xiaq3• 11 years ago

Qihoo 360 is very successful in starting a hype in China and some tech company believe that installing it is good practice.

codezero6• 11 years ago

Why do they believe that? What does it offer that other tools don't?

honest_joe2• 11 years ago

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

mfjordvald• 11 years ago

It is. The browser also doesn't complain about the Chinese government SSL certificates used in SSL stripping. As someone who has lived in China for a while now I'm always wary about using any Chinese software.

pki2• 11 years ago

I just don't use any chinese software wherever possible. Even the games contain malware rootkits that start at os boot, ring0 (tenprotect).

xiaq3• 11 years ago

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.

MichaelGG• 11 years ago

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

That's the worst one of all as it contributes to people making stupider decisions and believing dumb stuff.

marme2• 11 years ago

it is impossible to get chinese people stop believe these kinds of things even after they move to america most will continue to believe this kind of stuff. They believe all electronic equipment especially computer equipment give off radiation that is harmful to fetus, to combat this they will wear special maternity clothes that are lined with aluminum foil that acts as a faraday cage. if you ever see a pregnant chinese girl wearing weird overalls this is that special clothing, if you put your cell phone in the pocket it will immediately lose all signal. They also believe cactus absorb radiation and will keep them on their desk.

ttflee• 11 years ago

it contributes to people making stupider decisions and believing dumb stuff

In the cell phone of a Chinese, such messages are ubiquitous. Taking the WeChat app by Tencent Inc. for example, I constantly read messages from my parents sharing such nonsense stories. They wouldn't stop even if you complained as their friends and alumnae shared these constantly. Subjects of the nonsense included but were not limited to: a) pseudosciences, e.g., Japanese scientists discovered that water molecules behaved differently when it was being scolded verbally; b) misinformation, like an explosion occurred or a child was taken by human traffickers, which could not be confirmed or the time of which is not specified at all; c) false/suspicious political/historical rumours which favours their targets (i.e. my parents); d) success stories and other click baits.

These stories were poorly made up but easily spread. Some were made in commercial purposes to attract more subscribers so that their network of rumours could expand. You cannot fight them all. You cannot sue them all. You cannot eradicate them all.

gowild2• 11 years ago

Qihoo also has a tight connection with China's GFW

cooleng• 11 years ago

Qihoo is one the notorious companies in China which block Google. It is ridiculous its article published in golang.org.

no4clipper2• 11 years ago

, which is not worse than Google/MSFT/Facebook having tighter connections with NSA PRISM.

golang3• 11 years ago

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

They should remove the article.

marme2• 11 years ago

@golang is the official twitter for the site, i suggest others message them to take this article down. They have already mentioned this article on twitter https://twitter.com/golang/status/618096409137393665

simplexion2• 11 years ago

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.

henryscala• 11 years ago

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.

wener• 11 years ago

Not at all.Just people get use to it.Those can accept, accept it.Those dislike, never touch it.

cdelsolar2• 11 years ago

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

cdelsolar2• 11 years ago

Thanks for the downvotes.

microtonal• 11 years ago

Upvoted, it's a legitimate request coming from an existing HN user. But I think you are being downvoted since there is clearly some astroturfing going on the comments to this post.

li-ch• 11 years ago

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?

girvo• 11 years ago

Flag the comments by clicking the timestamp to see the comment as it's own thread.

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