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joking

 

People, people! C'mon, where's the moderation here? Humor is not for this place.

The updates are at most 1GB, normally it's around 500MB. Quit trolling guys!

Now, speaking seriously, I would say it's probably not bigger than 100MB.

And again, more seriously. I noticed some time ago that Comodo's SecureDNS blocked Qihu's download website. So I sent an inquiry and that's what they replied:

What the heck?

 

Hmmm... do they also whitelist a site that may actually have malware on it, because it's whitelisted by other vendors?

 

I'll quote ya on their Forum. I think it'll be nice to open a thread about it. I'll keep y'all posted.

 

A quick one about update size: after installing with their latest installer, which brought today a 3-day-old database, it downloaded 1.5MB in 5 minutes in the first update.

 

hmm i get a 403 when i try to visit that site. but eset, and avast had no issues with it. jaspion no offense they were just kidding... sometimes you need some humor to break things up.. i saw no issues with it. after a while of using it im on the fence. it seems to miss some things i dont think it should and at the same time be super sensitive at times. especially during program installation i have to answer a pop up for nearly every file while i do that. kind of annoying imo especially when a program like firefox should be known good. otherwise a really nice program. if it can be made not so sensitive about certain things and stop with all the pop ups (which i will look at later in the settings) i could recc it it to a basic user as a good free program.

 

The error in the page is because it's only for downloading the files. Like the current installer: -http://down.360safe.com/360is/360is_x64_4.1.0.4031G.exe-

I know they were joking, I was too

 

Z- what programs are you installing that receive popups? About the only thing I've noticed when installing a legit application is a notice when an autostart entry is created (which is a good thing).

And many thanks to those discussing the update size. It reminded me I hadn't cleaned Quarantine for a while and it was up to 1.4 GB. Yikes!!

And Jaspion- I suppose there are Blacklists that feel that something termed an AV coming from China just HAS to be a rogue.

 

Yes, I also have to remember to clean the quarantine every once in a while.

I don't know, it seems very strange that they block it just because others block it. If you're in the business of verifying the safety of websites, then do that ~ Snipped as per TOS ~

 

mozilla ux, r-drive backup, aomei backup and many others. constant pop ups...

 

So..I downloaded the 17MB installer via CNET and oh my god...Installed this and rebooted and now off to update.

I noticed that now win7 action center is not seeing 360 IS as a antispyware program,I think this is probably because my bitdenfer DB is outdated or is currently being downloaded.Internet is unfotunately damn slow.

So is there a different installer with all the updates + the program on their page or something.

 

btw,I downloaded the installer via their site and installed it and it says 2013-07-24 is latest DB.Anyone else can confirm this?

 

The next program update from Q will activate the spyware notification within windows security centre, for the time being just tell windows to ignore it.

My current database is the 27/07/2013.

Note that the first update after installing should update everything to current, I only download direct from 360Safe.com and it was about 180Mb.

 

Strange even I downloaded it from official qihoo site but mine still shows 24/3/2013 is latest

EDIT: If this condition doesnt change,I am gonna trash this and try bitdefender free product.

 

Condition hasnt changed since 4 hours I installed this,enough test of my patience,looks like soon it will be goodbye china..I may wait a bit longer.

Also,if anyone from Qihoo can address this issue I will be glad to come back to 360 IS.

 

Maybe if you can mention what system you have and other installed security software ( firewall? ) are installed then problem solving might be able to take place, without details there is not much anyone can contribute

Best to start with a fresh download from 360Safe.com, uninstall what you have and start clean, if you have a 3rd party firewall installed put it in learning mode.

 

No third party firewall apart from win FW..all defaults...I have tried twice reinstalls with no luck

 

Do you have an entry in the windows firewall for Q ( it'll be all chinese text ) does it have full in-out access ?

 

Z- Just tried both aomei backup and R-drive. Both installed without a peep, except for Comodo alerts (I'm using the Q+CF pair). Additionally Comodo Cloud did not like one of the drivers Aomei attempted to install; classed it as malware.

But if you are getting these popups constantly, which should not happen, could it be you have some sort of pre-existing system infection that has compromised install routines that Q is alerting you to?

And Q is updating fine here. Maybe your ISP has blacklisted Chinese AV's.

 

Yes I checked that long ago before and win FW was allowing it..same situation even on my VM and main machine

 

OK UPDATE: after some chat with my ISP,they say dont block any such servers from china.More ever I still dont understand if something is blocking Qihoo then the update must fail rather showing the program is up to date

I am still very eager to get this thing working correctly and get this sorted..I really like this program

I dont know if the issue is my country.Still if any Qihoo employee can assist me I will appreciate it

 

Uninstalling is a nightmare, even after uninstalling and removing all traces I could find in the Registry Kaspersky wanted me to remove it when I installed Kaspersky so I just skipped the uninstall option since I already uninstalled...didn't do anything anyway...

 

installed on freshly formatted system and tried again same result..

 

I beg to differ, I've found that it uninstalls very clean when compared to other AV's, there was nothing left at all in system files and just a few entries in the registry which can be found by searching for 360Safe and Softwin ( the latter being the sole leftover Bitdefender entry )

 

OK Try 3: Downloaded the full installer from the 360safe.com and now installing in VM if successful I may plan to get this on my host though considering the fact I am doing a lot of installing and uninstalling of AV's in this month