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Mine too. People who have the date as 29 are probably in a different time zone, but have the same signatures.

 

Does it auto-update to 4.3.0 or do you need to manual install?

 

When I tried 15 hours ago, the live update was not finding the new version.

 

It doesn't auto-update presently. Install on top of the old version- it will detect it, ask if you want to upgrade. A reboot is needed as it shuts down the current version prior to install.

 

@cruelsister: do you even intend to test whether the HIPS is cloud-based?

 

Do we even know if they are going to add a recover option to the sandbox?

 

I already said about 5 pages back after having the same issue and emailing 360 support that HIPS IS network dependent/cloud based

 

Yes, I remembered that someone, you, had said that, but I couldn't believe it. It's so stupid, it's hard to believe. What did their support say?

 

It would be nice to be able to recover files directly from the sandbox.
I was able to recover a sandboxed file by restoring it from quarantine.

 

I deleted the email already but the gist of it was that their threat center found that without internet the chances of getting infected was not enough to warrent the need for HIPS

 

Thank you very much. This is absurd. I'm officially dropping Qihu from my recommendation list.

I won't babble on about the many, many ways someone could get infected without the internet, but let me just say that, perhaps, some one of Qihu's millions of users will perchance one day bring home a USB device with files infected by a still undetected malware — infected via internet, of course, at work or at college, etc — and then bring home these files to his/her computer that is "protected" by Qihu 360 IS. Let us just pray the internet is on and steady on that day at this person's house, because if not we already know it will be a bad day… Except for the cyber criminals, they might like it.

 

If there is no internet, the sandbox will autosandbox unknown execution from usb.

 

Oh yeah, I forgot about that setting. But what about a file you just downloaded? You finish the download, the internet goes down. Or maybe the file is in a 7z archive. Etc etc, like I said, there are many ways.

 

Theres always the bitdefender engine! Certainly does well anyways. I am using antiexecutable so I dont need to worry at all if internet goes down.

 

You're making a huge mountain out of a molehill.

 

It is just pure hips, just alert for startup items etc.
why they disable it when network is disconnected?
360IS will lose half of power when net connection disconnect because it lose cloud engine/ is it not enought?
HIPS also stop working, it is not understandablefor me.

 

Guys,calm down! Chill

If in any case the real time or internet goes down or starts 1 or 2 minutes late while the person gets his USB in,there is sandbox to get there in time and plus we have bitdefender engine if anything goes wrong at the end and there is something called "on-demand scan" which many of the average users do once in a while to pick up anything that got through and as for the HIPS part yes its cloud based but it isnt non-effective,most of the users these days dont suffer too many internet problems do they? Perhaps we have forgotten that no security program is 100%

Still I feel this could have been better because there will always be someone who will stuck his USB just right after the system boots and what will happen if internet is down then sandbox is only defense left and in addition to that 1-2 minutes after BD engine kicks in and maybe some part of proactive defense maybe.But still doesnt make me happy,its unacceptable in some way for me.

I have sent everything written here to their support.

EDIT: I take my words back,I am gonna keep this program in my list with avast and BD Free.

Hopefully,we will get to hear something from them,I am planning to go with BDAV free for a while here until 360 IS settles around or avast gets their new stuff in order.Cya

 

Well,it looks like I am gonna stick with this program for some more time than I expected,no mood of uninstalling it,guess what,its a keeper

 

Until you find another toy to play with...

 

Well my next toy will probably be BDAV free

 

Toys tend to break easily, and so does BDAV.

 

so does 360 IS...no toy is 100%

 

Absolutely. Although Q has pushed the native detection level to the excellent level, it still is vulnerable (Jaspion's Worst Case scenarios add to this). That's why the Q+CF combo is (for me at least) the way to go.

 

Too late..I got bored...Now looking to try any new toy

 

I don't think you got my intended sarcasm. Those were not worst-case scenarios, they were things that happen everyday.

This is a design flaw in my opinion. It's a serious one, I used the example of a USB, but it could be even something downloaded from the internet, password-protected so never verified, and when you open your internet is down. Can't that happen? "Oh, my connection is stable," well good for you. Mine usually is too, but the point is why on Earth would Qihu disable some of its protection if you're offline? If they disabled the web filter or download filter, I would understand. But this is ridiculous! It's like saying your car can't roll up its windows when it's sunny, and the company that makes it says "Well, but the chances you'll need your windows shut while it isn't raining are too small"…