The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information reprimanded both companies for 'improper competition' and ordered them to come to an accord. In response, Tencent called 360 itself malware and denied users with 360 installed access to some QQ services. If you're looking for an antivirus solution that's not intrusive and lets you get on with whatever you're doing, 360 Total Security Essential is a good choice.In 2010, 360 Safeguard analyzed the QQ protocol and accused QQ of automatically scanning users' computers and of uploading their personal information to QQ's servers without users' consent. It explains what every feature does, and it's easy to configure. An effective and efficient antivirusģ60 Total Security Essential is really easy to use, with a clear interface that's simple to navigate. Stripping away features to the minimum necessary makes it more lightweight, and more appropriate for someone who just wants some protection. In some ways, 360 Total Security Essential is superior to its big brother 360 Total Security. This happened a couple of times, and deserves to be mentioned. We did find that occasionally 360 Total Security Essential confuses EXE files for some games as malicious, even when we know them to be clean files.

This seems like overkill to us, as most browsers today will warn you if a site is not secure or dangerous.

360 Total Security Essential also includes an optional browser extension which will notify you if any pages you visit are potentially malicious. This is good, as enabling them increases RAM usage, but you have them as an option if you want to be extra secure. The Avira and Bitdefender are disabled by default.

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