By Mark Wilson
360 Total Security may have a generically familiar name, but you are possibly not familiar with the name of the company behind it: Qihoo 360.
More than just an antivirus and malware protection tool – although this is undeniably its primary function – 360 Total Security is a suite of utilities that also offers to clean up and optimise your computer. Things get off to a good start with the protection side of things because Qihoo 360 has chosen to numerous scanning engines (360 Cloud Scan Engine, 360 QVMII AI Engine, Avira and Bitdefender).
The system optimization section is little more than a simple way to access startup items, and although the cleanup options can free up disk space, such tools are becoming increasingly unnecessary these days thanks to larger hard drives and improved software.
There are also lots of supplementary utilities (and a varied bunch it is!) including a ransomware decryptor, registry editor, a firewall, document protection, and sandboxing.
360 Total Security’s installer makes a slightly sneaky attempt to install the Opera web browser (which it describes as “safe and fast”). While this certainly isn’t as bad as the adware and unwanted extras that could have been included, it’s still annoying if you …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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