360 Total Security

7 Feb 2017


      360 Total Security
That you've never heard of this virus scanner is not that strange. However  
it has an installed base on 99.99999999% (my estimate) of all windows PCś  
in China. The only PCś that I know without it are those I laid my hands  
on. We're talking about every windows installation in China, 64 and 32  
bit. That these guys managed to report anything on launchpad is a small  
miracle and shows their persistence.
Now of course that entails only about 700 Million PC's in the country, so  
hardly a popular browser.
That said, I wouldn't be surprised if someone dropped a big red envelope  
on Qihoo (the company) to make this happen or someone asked his uncle Wu  
for a favor.
In any case I would recommend any user of 360 to remove the software  
(virtually impossible b.t.w. it acts like a virus once installed. I tend  
to boot into Linux to clean up the crap, then have to purge registry  
manually taking care not to remove another thingy called 360 that will  
bork the machine if removed.)
Qihoo takes care of a steady stream of virus that will be found by their  
scanner and doesn't find anything really dangerous. Is total nonsense but  
will do some nice keyboard logging, sends data to 3rd parties and makes  
lots of ads pop up while you're watching movies. Oh,.. I believe DNS  
poisoning is also one its tricks. This is standard practice for 'free  
software' in China, so letś not make too much of it. It adds to the  
overall surveillance of subversive terminology here.
No doubt it is one of the reasons you've never heard of it as only an  
idiot will install it voluntarily.
In any case it might be worthwhile to contact those rogues at Qihoo and  
ask kindly whether their software is corrupt or someone in the blacklist  
department has bought a new car lately. On the other hand I cannot exclude  
a man in the middle attack or the people downloading Inkscape from a 3rd  
party website as that is a common way of getting software for free.  
Whether that is Illustrator or Inkscape doesn't really matter. The reason  
being mainly that any software downloaded from outside China is prone to  
package loss due to latency.
The fact that Inkscape is on their radar at all is quite impressive. 90%  
of all software here is pirated and the rest is for free except for the  
government installed windows and whatever comes with high end brands  
pre-installed.
I have never been able to access launchpad before I was given special  
access by Maren some year ago. If they did they must have had the patience  
of Job to do so. BTW, as one of my Yahoo accounts was hacked I lost that  
access.
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Relevant bug report (I don't know if this was one of thetwo reports):
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1658812
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If you want feel free to contact them (I didn't know that Virusscanner 
either and I doubt it's that popular, so I didn't bother to take action 
in the first place).
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Regards,
Eduard
Just about anyone in China, except the 1 million expats.
Cheers,
Jelle

jelle

brynn

Eduard Braun

Maren Hachmann

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