On this page we will analyze in detail the process of installing the new free antivirus program 360 Total Security on your computer.
1 Loading installation file by clicking the button below:
2 Launch it and the main window will immediately open, in which we recommend not to touch anything. Click on the "Install" button.
3 We wait until everything is unpacked and installed necessary files for the antivirus to work.
4 Done! The program has been successfully installed on your computer.
The main window will immediately open and you will be prompted to install additional protection against web threats. If you agree to install additional components, then the browser will be installed following functions: a component for detecting sites with phishing and Trojans, as well as a component for protection during online shopping on the Internet. We recommend taking advantage of this offer.
To install web protection, you must have on your computer Chrome browser, For example . Immediately after clicking on the “Install Now” button, you will be redirected to a special free Internet Chrome store with browser add-ons and the desired page will open. On this page you will need to add the extension to your browser (just click on the + icon as shown in the image below).
A notification will appear asking for confirmation to add the extension to the panel, click Add. After which the “Web Threat Protection 360” add-on will be successfully installed in the browser.
Setting up 360 Total Security antivirus
To ensure the most effective protection when using this antivirus solution, we recommend that you configure it and use the maximum settings to detect viruses and potentially unwanted software.
1 The first thing you need to do is go to the “Antivirus” item.
2 Immediately point at the icons, as shown below, and activate them by simply clicking on the slider. We activate Bitdefender and Avira AntiVir.
3 After activating additional engines for protection, we proceed to the next configuration step. Now you need to go to the main menu of the program. Click on the special icon in the upper right corner of the 360 Total Security antivirus and select “Settings”.
4 Next, in the window that opens, activate the “Scan compressed files during a full disk scan,” immediately after that go to the “Active Protection” section and check the box next to “Monitor all file types.”
5 Done! You can close the settings window and go to full scan computer.
Which antivirus to choose - paid or free? Can a free antivirus guarantee a high level of security?
Is there any support? Android platforms? Don't know which antivirus to choose?
In today's article we will talk about the free antivirus 360 Total Security.
Every third Chinese uses Qihoo 360 developments
Developer free antivirus 360 Total Security is an unfamiliar company for the average RuNet user, but quite popular in China, Qihoo 360.
Qihoo 360 was founded in 2005 and, having exchanged the first ten years, was able to enter and confidently remain among the top suppliers of antivirus products in the Chinese market.
In addition to the antivirus itself, the company has developed its own browser and search engine, which are no less popular among residents of the Middle Kingdom.
Note! Let's look at the numbers: at the end of June last year, the company's products were used by about 500 (!) million PC users and 650 million users mobile devices. For comparison, the entire population of the CIS today is 280 million.
The antivirus is positioned under the slogan “Simple but powerful.”
In its work, the program uses signature, proactive and cloud technologies, which, together with an innovative approach based on the use of 5 engines - BitDefender, QVM II, cloud and recovery engine 360 Cloud and System Repair, provide on-line computer protection.
Important! 360 Total Security allows you to protect not only data, but also monitor for unauthorized control and use third party applications computer peripherals: keyboard or webcam.
The antivirus is available in two versions: simplified 360 Total Security Essential and full 360 Total Security.
Both applications are identical in their ability to detect and prevent viruses.
The differences lie in several basic functions that the 360 Total Security package has: checking the security of the Wi-Fi connection, cleaning temporary files, optimizing the system (working with the Startup menu, application services and system services).
Download, installation and first launch
To download the program you need to visit the official Web site (menu “Products” and select the desired version of the product).
Besides Windows support(in Win XP - Windows 10) and Andorid platforms, the antivirus can also be installed on Mac OS X (OS X 10.7 - OS X 10.10).
The antivirus is available for download in two versions - a full package for offline installation and a small, starter installer like the one used in Skype.
Note! Before installing any antivirus, incl. and 360 Total Security, you should make sure that no other antivirus programs are installed on your computer. If two or more antiviruses are installed, the operating system may become unstable.
Installation is trivial - select the language, get acquainted and agree to the terms license agreement and privacy policy.
Whether to join the “Software Quality Improvement Program” or not is up to everyone to decide for themselves (we won’t), you can also change the standard installation directory by going to the “Settings” item.
After installation, the main menu of the program will open with a proposal to perform a full scan of the computer.
Overview of main functions
The user is given 3 scanning modes to choose from - custom, full or quick ("Anti-Virus" menu).
Also, while in this menu, you can view/add/remove programs that are in quarantine and whitelisted.
Everything here is standard, like most antiviruses. But in addition to these features, the menu contains interesting opportunity- inclusion of two antivirus engines Avira and BitDefender.
To connect, click on the icon the required antivirus and turn it on using the switch.
When used this way, the enabled antivirus engines will be used on demand when scanning.
In order for them to be used and for active protection, you must click on the shield icon “Protection: on.” located in the upper left corner of the program menu, then go to the “Custom” protection mode and enable the desired engine in the “System Protection” section.
To scan a suspicious program, directory or file, there is no need to go to the antivirus menu and do a custom scan - this is too time-consuming.
Use the appropriate item context menu, which is available after clicking right click mouse on the desired object.
To do this, you need to go to the “Settings” menu, the “Active Protection” submenu, the “Internet” tab, install “Web Threat Protection 360” and select the browsers that are installed on your computer from the list.
It would also be useful to mention such interesting features, like “Sandbox” and “Vulnerabilities”.
The Sandbox feature provides the ability to run programs or applications in an isolated environment, which helps prevent the installation of unwanted programs and subsequent changes to system settings.
This function is disabled by default, and after enabling it in the “Tools” menu, this item will automatically appear in the context menu.
The Vulnerabilities feature allows you to scan your operating system for known vulnerabilities and update to fix them.
This antivirus left behind, perhaps, only positive impressions.
Availability of several engines high level proactive defense, incl. and from encrypting viruses, minimal load on the operating system, a convenient, intuitive interface and the absolute freeness of the antivirus - these are the factors that allow 360 Total Security to remain in the top antivirus software.
360 Total Security Antivirus Review
360 Total Security antivirus review: free protection your PC
360 total security is a malicious program belonging to the adware subclass. This virus is installed on your computer and injects advertising banners in browsers, changes home page each browser, gets into system registry and because of this, uninstalling this program is quite difficult. Infect a computer advertising virus possible when downloading certain shareware or free files from dubious resources, torrents, various mods for games, and so on. The creators of these portals monetize files by wrapping the content in a downloader. A downloader is a kind of program that will transfer the desired content to the user, and also installs viruses that change home page, write all sorts of redirects, place ads in browsers and much more. 360 total security is one of these programs.
How to remove 360 total security
To remove 360 total security from a PC, you need to find and destroy all registry keys associated with this virus, all virus files with hard drive, all browser extensions named 360 total security.
Most often, removing an add-on in browsers called 360 total security is effective either before re-entering the browser or before restarting the computer. The problem is that it recovers on its own. You can find the virus files and manually delete them, get rid of it in the “Add or Remove Programs” menu, and erase all browser extensions. However, if the keys of the virus program are saved in the registry, your treatment will go down the drain. It is necessary to delete all registry branches, and more specifically the keys related to the advertising program, but only well-trained users can perform this action. If you make a minor mistake when cleaning the registry, you will have to reinstall the operating system or it will still be able to function, but errors will still appear constantly. In this regard, we advise only fairly advanced users to clean the registry themselves; in any case, you clean the registry at your own peril and risk. However, you can skip the registry cleaning thanks to Enigma Software programmers who created the SpyHunter 4 utility, which cleans the registry from malware 360 total security.
Remove 360 total security automatically
Why Spyhunter is the best?
- Will clear all add-ons in the browser called 360 total security.
- Will delete registry keys that are associated with 360 total security and delete only those. Your registry will not be damaged, the operating system will work as before.
- This program will remove all 360 total security files from your computer.
- Provides your computer with protection from new threats.
- Improve the functioning of your PC, it will function better.
- Will delete others unwanted programs and viruses from the hard drive.
Instructions for manual removal of 360 total security
Let us remind you again that without proper experience you should not get into the register. Each PC has its own OS with many differences. Despite the fact that the main folders, files, and registry keys are mostly similar, the presence specific program, which has a registry key called 360 total security (this is a common occurrence), and, in fact, cleaning can lead to the destruction of the OS.
Step 1. You need to create a restore point.
Be sure to create a restore point. Without it in case of breakdown operating system recovery is impossible.
Hello everyone, It’s been a long time since I wrote about programs that relate to system security, but today I’ll fix that. I will tell you what kind of program 360 Total Security is, you will see how effectively it works, you will conclude whether you need it and if not, you can easily remove it. I will write to everyone about this.
360 Total Security is an antivirus, but unlike others, it is particularly advanced as it includes four engines at once: Avira AntiVir, Bitdefender, QVM II and cloud computing power 360 Cloud. There is a special version for Android devices, and by the way, I remember this program; 360 Security was often recommended on forums for removing junk programs on Android
The program implements proactive protection, monitoring sites in the browser, checking downloaded files and keylogger detection technologies (viruses that record everything you type on the keyboard).
In a sense, this is a software combine, since there is also a firewall (control of all network connections, it must be downloaded as a GlassWire Firewall component), protection of the web browser from dangerous sites, as well as tools for optimizing system operation (startup control, task scheduler , fine tuning Internet connections).
360 Total Security also has an assistant in the form of an extension for popular browsers (except for Mozilla, but it’s possible that this has already been fixed). This extension carefully controls the pages you visit: fake (phishing), sites with viruses and other junk pages will be blocked.
I won’t say, but it seems that according to many estimates, this antivirus has high ratings. But again, as with the other powerful antivirus Kaspersky, 360 Total Security checks the system so much that sometimes it sees ordinary utilities as malicious. On the contrary, some threats are missed. But all these are the opinions of certain users, while the majority of users are still satisfied with the antivirus.
True, 360 Total Security does not always enter the system correctly; users often discover it and do not understand what it is and where it came from. This is because it can penetrate Windows when installing third-party software; this is a common occurrence among software. Whatever it is, today I will figure out what kind of program 360 Total Security is and how necessary it is
When installed on a 360 Total Security system, it also installs the Bitdefender antivirus kernel; this can be disabled by unchecking this box:
Appearance of 360 Total Security
The program looks normal, well, in the sense that there is no overloaded interface, everything is quite clear:
There are main tabs with various options on them. What’s also interesting is that you can even log into the program using your VKontakte account:
To do this, click on VK Login in the right corner of the program:
Another icon, the one in the form of a T-shirt, is responsible for changing antivirus themes:
Although, as for me, the design themes in the antivirus are somehow superfluous.
Let's study a little 360 Total Security externally. On the Full Scan tab there is one huge button - Scan, click it and the antivirus starts scanning your computer accordingly:
At the end, you can fix all the mistakes or recheck. I had one threat and many junk files, the volume of which reached 3.4 GB:
By the way, at the top it will say Problems found, so there’s a link there detailed information, if you are interested, you can take a look, interesting details may be indicated there.
Testing 360 Total Security, I can already say that I like how quickly and clearly the program interface works, all functions work quickly, system scanning is also quite fast. And at the same time, I have not yet noticed any advertising in the program
On the Antivirus tab you can run a scan, there are three types in total, I chose Quick scan. It lasted about two minutes, then there was this result:
There are no problems, this is probably because I already used the full scan on the first tab. In general, there is still full check and selective, in which you can specify which folders should be scanned.
There's a lot of cool stuff on the Acceleration tab. And it’s really useful, I liked the fact that everything that starts with Windows is displayed here:
By the way, there is no need to think about what can be disabled and what cannot; to do this, just click on the Optimize button.
On the same tab, but in the Manual section, you can independently disable some programs from Windows startup (and delete invalid ones):
The Cleaning tab will allow you to scan the system for garbage, this can be either junk extensions or temporary files:
On the Tools tab there is a lot of things, there is an option to install an additional firewall component, there is a registry cleaning tool, and you can also instantly install some programs (this is something new):
In my opinion, the Browser Protection feature will be useful for many. Here you can select the browser you use and block any unauthorized changes to it ( virus programs often like to install malicious extensions, change search engine, lock settings):
By the way, the Registry Cleanup tool can also find a bunch of garbage in the registry:
A firewall is a special tool for complete control of the network activity of programs, that is, you can either deny or allow access to the Internet to any program. But here you need to understand a little about who can be given access to the network and who shouldn’t
360 Total Security Settings
Now let's see how things are going with the 360 Total Security settings. To do this, click on this button and select Settings in the menu:
So what can I say here? Everything is configured optimally, you don’t need to change anything. But personally, some things still irritate me, namely that after turning on the computer, a message appears about how many seconds it took to boot Windows. And so on all the time. To disable this, in the 360 Total Security settings, on the General tab, uncheck this box:
On the Active Protection tab, you can enable special anti-virus extensions in browsers if you need it. But I will say right away that on the one hand this may seem unnecessary to you, but on the other hand these extensions will actually block those sites that distribute virus software. So think about whether to connect them or not:
On the Antivirus tab, you may be interested in the option to disable the 360 Total Security item from the file’s context menu; to do this, uncheck this box:
Also on this tab you can schedule a scan, for example, if you have a powerful and fast computer, you can set the scan to happen every day:
Or every week, then look at how you use the computer and the Internet, if you are very active, then a daily check will be the best option.
By the way, here is the tray menu, fast access to different sections of 360 Total Security:
I also accidentally noticed that this antivirus also helps update your Windows; to be honest, I didn’t know that it had such a feature:
I have Windows 7, but I think it will also help update Windows 10, although it seems to be able to handle this task on its own
A small addition. Unfortunately, over time I discovered an unpleasant bug in the 360 Total Security antivirus. And in general I have not seen such a jamb, which other antiviruses do not seem to have. In short, sometimes, I don’t know how often, but after turning on the computer, the antivirus shows the following advertisement:
How to remove ads in 360 Total Security? And go find out how.. It seems like there’s no way, in any case, I didn’t find such a setting. Moreover, the antivirus seems to be free, I just thought at first, maybe paid version The antivirus has no advertising, but it turns out that there is no paid version. You have to pay for everything, even for free... No, advertising can of course be removed if you track the addresses of 360 Total Security servers and block access to them in hosts file, but then the antivirus will not be able to update, so this is not a solution to the problem. So, unfortunately, it’s still unknown how to remove ads in 360 Total Security
How to completely remove 360 Total Security antivirus from your computer?
Due to the fact that 360 Total Security often gets onto the computer in an inappropriate way, that is, when installing other programs, it is not surprising that some users want to remove it.
But before I delete it, I’ll write my opinion. In general, I am skeptical about modern antiviruses (especially new ones), since most of them contain dubious functions. All the new functions are not particularly useful, and the rest have been in antivirus programs for a long time. Behind Lately Only proactive defense and heuristic analysis have improved, everything else is just embellished. But many functions have appeared that, on the one hand, are useful, but on the other hand, they can be found in several programs at once. Here in 360 Total Security, in terms of system optimization, there are several tools that are also in the CCleaner program, although the first is an antivirus, and the second is a Windows cleaner
Many antiviruses have begun to appear sections for PC cleaning - to remove temporary files and junk keys in the registry. All this is good, but I think that an antivirus should be an antivirus. For example, I use the Outpost firewall, there’s nothing even close to that, it’s a firewall and a bit of an antivirus. Okay, I wrote you some of my thoughts.
You can remove 360 Total Security from your computer in the usual way. But since the program is large, it would be correct to delete it along with all the garbage that it may leave behind. Here I recommend using a tool like this, try it, I think you will be interested
Well, now let's see how to remove 360 Total Security using built-in tools. Click the Start menu and select Control Panel (and if you have Windows 10, this item can be found in the menu called Win + X):
Then find the Programs and Features icon and launch it:
In the list of installed software, find 360 Total Security, right-click on it and select Uninstall:
The deleter will start, click Continue:
Then a message will pop up asking you to confirm the deletion again:
The deletion will begin:
The process should take a maximum of a minute, then 360 Total Security will be completely removed from your computer. After this, a browser will open with a page asking you to report the reason for deletion.
Well, that’s almost all... almost, because there will still be a little garbage left in the registry. But this can be fixed, I’ll now show you how
How to remove 360 Total Security from the registry?
This procedure should only be performed if, like me, you try to keep the system strictly clean. Garbage keys in the registry do not particularly burden Windows! But nevertheless, I try to remove them.
So, press Win + R, a small window will appear, write a command like regedit there and click OK:
The Registry Editor will open. In it, press Ctrl + F and insert 360 Total Security into the Find field so that all entries mentioning this antivirus are found:
Let me remind you once again that you need to delete in this way only those keys that were found (that is, automatically selected) during the search! To continue the search, press F3 and then again delete all the found keys and so on until a message appears that the search is over.
This is all not very important, but personally, I always try to clean the registry like this after uninstalling software, I don’t uninstall programs that often, so it’s okay to work hard
Well, everything seems to have been told, now you know 360 Total Security what kind of program it is, and it’s easy to understand whether you need it or not. Good luck to you
01.06.2016Indeed, modern antivirus programs They offer such a set of functions that, in theory, browser protection should be present there a priori, but this is not always the case. In fact, the task of an antivirus is to prevent malware from reaching your HDD, and therefore he tirelessly and carefully monitors downloads, downloaded files and external connections. At the same time, what you are doing in the web browser environment often falls out of his attention.
It turns out that all passwords and logins, account information and credit cards, access to sites and accounts in in social networks- all information that you enter into fields on pages opened in the browser is at risk of being stolen. Along with money, subscribers and reputation. It turns out that not every antivirus for the Internet copes with its responsibilities 100%
Which antivirus should I use?
The Qihoo 360 company considers one of its most important tasks to be the protection of users in the web space where we spend more and more time every day. That's why 360 Total Security, our flagship product, automatically prompts you to install 360 Internet Security browser protection.
This is an almost weightless plugin that is built into any modern web browser and automatically monitors the sites that you enter into command line. Even before you see the portal content, the program warns about potential dangers - keyloggers, phishing sites, and other suspicious add-ons.
With this add-on, you can safely make online purchases, enter card numbers and PIN codes, and send personal and confidential information.
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