

- #360 TOTAL SECURITY REVIEW 2019 INSTALL#
- #360 TOTAL SECURITY REVIEW 2019 FULL#
- #360 TOTAL SECURITY REVIEW 2019 PORTABLE#
- #360 TOTAL SECURITY REVIEW 2019 PC#
Like most other types of antivirus applications, 360 Total Security claims to protect your computer from most of the threats it will encounter, including viruses, ransomware, malware, keyloggers, Trojans and other types of threats.

Types of Malware: Claims Differ from Reality

html files, and flags them as potential security threats, even if they’re saved and you want them saved to your computer. The other two were questionable and a good catch by the software. What we found is that 360 Total Security doesn’t like. Of those, three were actually legitimate files that posed no threat to our system.
#360 TOTAL SECURITY REVIEW 2019 PORTABLE#
During our test, we scanned a portable hard drive with more than 60,000 files (184 GB used space) and the scan took less than an hour and caught five potentially threatening files. You can also conduct a custom scan of any connected external hard drive or storage device. You can schedule this (or any other scan) to take place at regular intervals (daily, weekly, etc.) or during overnight hours so there is no concern with your system bogging down while the scan is taking place.
#360 TOTAL SECURITY REVIEW 2019 FULL#
A Full Scan will examine system settings, common apps, running processes, startup items, and files to ensure you have no existing malware likely to cause trouble with your system. However, you’re not limited to the quick scan. This scan checks for existing virus applications on your main hard drive and takes only a few minutes to complete. Scan Locations: Scan Anything, Everything, or Just the Basicsīy default, 360 Total Security conducts a Quick Scan on your system as soon as it’s installed, even before you complete reading and signing the Privacy Policy (which is quite thorough). 360 Total Security scored only 91.7 percent on detections, compared to most other antivirus products that average in the 98-99 percent range.ģ60 Total Security also includes a machine learning AI engine that monitors activity to ensure that threats are captured. Unfortunately, in industry testing through AV TEST, 360 Total Security was found to be less effective at catching and removing viruses than its industry peers. But 360 Total Security also includes a machine learning AI engine that monitors activity to ensure that threats are captured even before a common definition is established. So seriously, in fact, that the 360 Total Security product works from five different antivirus engines, including the Bitdefender and Avira antivirus definition engines. Type of Protection/Security: Both Definitions & Behavior Monitoringĭefinition-based antivirus scans are mostly industry standard for antivirus applications, and 360 Total Security takes definitions seriously. The browser extension, 360 Internet Protection, is installed automatically, however, you can delete this immediately if desired.
#360 TOTAL SECURITY REVIEW 2019 PC#
This is a significant improvement over other antivirus developers who smuggle programs onto your PC without your knowledge.
#360 TOTAL SECURITY REVIEW 2019 INSTALL#
Importantly, no bloatware is loaded on your computer during this process, however, you will be asked whether you would like to install any additional software that comes with 360 Total Security. Installing 360 Total Security took around seven minutes during our last assessment, however, this time, we needed little more than a minute to get up and running. It also comes with a memory booster that gets rid of any junk files taking up space on your computer and making it run slower.ĭespite coming with so many blocks and protection levels, the tool is not hard to use as it comes with a simple and easy-to-understand interface.Īgain, in spite of coming with five engines, it’s still lightweight and takes up hardly any space on your PC, although its scan is rather slower than others because of the simultaneous malware scanning process. Concretely, it includes the Qihoo cloud tools, Qihoo system repair, and the QVM-II AI engine as well as Bitdefender and Avira.Ĭombining these five elements gives you 360 Total Security, the ultimate weapon for you to avoid malware infection to any part of your system. Protecting your PC is a day-to-day essential, as it’s becoming ever more important to have complete protection in order to keep your computer running well.ģ60 Total Security is a complete tool made up of five different engines that make this antivirus program incomparable with the competition.
