A lot of members in here seem to be praising 360 IS and TS. But 360 suffers from a huge flaw. This flaw has been around for over 6 months and 360 seems to be refusing to address it. With every new version this huge problem is not corrected. I have about 6 emails with 360 support and they are aware of this issue. What is the issue you may ask? 360 products do not work in a standard user account. You can install and run 360 IS or TS in an Admin account perfectly fine. Log out and login in under a standard account and the account is unprotected. You can try all day long to force it to start and it will not work. So think again before recommending and praising 360. Never mind that TS comes with features that are completely and totally unnecessary to any security product. Avast is a far superior free security solution and Eset is a top notch paid product. No reason to start an argument either. I can copy and paste the emails from 360 support. Anyone can duplicate this flaw also.
Another thing. 360 China version and this new 360 TS version are completely different. AVC and AV Test.org are testing 360 China. Not 360 TS Free.
i am aware of this issue already, i already talked about this in this forum, but i didnt have the time to create a topic for it. You are completely right that doesnt mean it is a bad product, however this failure is not the only one, there are many ones (for example about the bitdenfender updates and other ones). i already contact them via facebook but they didnt answer, well at least for me, is not a problem cuz i am the only one who uses the pc.
This is not a hidden flaw, cuz on start you may see a pop up prompting a message telling you that an AC user account is rquired, the only thing is you have to do is run the program with admin privileges and thats all, (all least for me works).
ABOUT BITDEFENDER FLAW
by some reason the bitdefender database used in qihoo is not the same as seen on emsisoft or even the same bitdefender IS as well, why? simple, there are many samples that are not detected by bitdefender engine (qihoo) but they are already covered by bitdefender paid version, even old samples (from several days old). my theory is that, due to the fact bitdefender uses to update hourly the databases and qihoo updates two times per day, some signatures are lost in the way.
EXPERIMENT: take an old malware pack from here (a week old etc) scan with qihoo in offline mode, then do the same with bitdefender IS; TS, AV you would see a big diffrence in detection rate (and supposedly the detection rate must be the same).
Conectivity issue
as all we know qihoo with out internet is a ***, but i think it makes a good job from preventing infection, in the rare case you get infected you can easily connect to a network and wait for qihoo to remove the hazard, if not we have second opinion scanners. I believe that all users here are smart enough to get infected in a normal basis.
Finally if you mix software eg: qihoo+private firewall+traffic light etc. that would be enough. BUT I WILL STAY WITH QIHOO anyway.
PST: sorry for my poor english, it is not my main language, if you have any problems trying to get my point send me a PM and i wiil explain you
