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Total Security 360 vs Wanna Cry Ransomware
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<blockquote data-quote="AtlBo" data-source="post: 759257" data-attributes="member: 32547"><p>Thanks. Yes I have noticed this about 360. However, I tend to go with this view:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Due to the damaging nature of ransomware, I also feel that Qihoo should block the activity itself immediately. This dilemma was faced by many of the a-v companies, who seem to have addressed it in some cases or for most ransomware samples. Qihoo for their part does have the file restoration application. Not sophisticated, but it works. Also, there is the decryption application for some ransomwares. In the case of WannaCry, I think that even if Qihoo had itself stopped the file at first detection (first alert), some files may have been damaged. That's the same issue I mentioned noticing with products of other vendors early on with WannaCry and some others I recall, like perhaps Petya and maybe Satana.</p><p></p><p>This said, Qihoo also does have the sandbox for running files as mentioned by [USER=29992]@stefanos[/USER]. Sandbox is a big bonus for MS Office. I haven't ever been able to get it to work from the context menu to run files in a standard user account, though. It's hard to work with otherwise for running single new files.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, my solution for the computer that is running Qihoo 360 is Comodo Firewall + Qihoo 360 Essentials (very light) + AppCheck A/RW + NVT OSArmor. It's overkill, except that I use the computer quite oftenly, and none of the apps are resource greedy in any way. I can still see why someone could say it's way too much, but it works very well for me , and I am confident with the setup. It's maximum possible peace of mind for free, unless maybe I ran Kaspersky Security Cloud in place of 360. Just wanted the Bitdefender and Avira signatures from a-v anyway.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AtlBo, post: 759257, member: 32547"] Thanks. Yes I have noticed this about 360. However, I tend to go with this view: Due to the damaging nature of ransomware, I also feel that Qihoo should block the activity itself immediately. This dilemma was faced by many of the a-v companies, who seem to have addressed it in some cases or for most ransomware samples. Qihoo for their part does have the file restoration application. Not sophisticated, but it works. Also, there is the decryption application for some ransomwares. In the case of WannaCry, I think that even if Qihoo had itself stopped the file at first detection (first alert), some files may have been damaged. That's the same issue I mentioned noticing with products of other vendors early on with WannaCry and some others I recall, like perhaps Petya and maybe Satana. This said, Qihoo also does have the sandbox for running files as mentioned by [USER=29992]@stefanos[/USER]. Sandbox is a big bonus for MS Office. I haven't ever been able to get it to work from the context menu to run files in a standard user account, though. It's hard to work with otherwise for running single new files. Anyway, my solution for the computer that is running Qihoo 360 is Comodo Firewall + Qihoo 360 Essentials (very light) + AppCheck A/RW + NVT OSArmor. It's overkill, except that I use the computer quite oftenly, and none of the apps are resource greedy in any way. I can still see why someone could say it's way too much, but it works very well for me , and I am confident with the setup. It's maximum possible peace of mind for free, unless maybe I ran Kaspersky Security Cloud in place of 360. Just wanted the Bitdefender and Avira signatures from a-v anyway. [/QUOTE]
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