Re: 360.cn Website

[Kevin Halgren <kevin.halgren () WASHBURN EDU>]

That's a tough call for various reasons.  It's most likely from Chinese 
nationals who are using the free 360.cn antivirus software on their 
computers.  That software seems quite popular but is of questionable 
value from a protection perspective and there is speculation it provides 
a backdoor for Chinese government monitoring of individuals and a 
bridgehead into remote network for malicious activity on the part of the 
Chinese government or independent agents.

Like so many things China-related, it's at least semi-legitimate but not 
something I'd ever trust personally.

See here for more:
http://research.zscaler.com/2011/05/is-360cn-evil.html

Kevin

On 11/19/2012 2:13 PM, Tatum, Jeff wrote:
> Does anyone know if the 360.cn website, or associated software is 
> legitimate antivirus and antimalware?
>
> I've noticed some odd traffic heading to qurl.f.360.cn on port 53.  
> They're not DNS queries, but seems to be a large payload of encoded data.
>
> *Jeff Tatum*
>
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