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Product

Free PC security and optimization software for Windows users from 360, providing malware and ransomware protection, system cleaning and performance tools. Supported platforms are Windows. Recorded capabilities include cloud-assisted scanning, malware detection, ransomware protection and web protection. The stated market is Consumer. It is free to use.

Current Version
15.0.2.1007
Product Page
weishi.360.cn
Market
Consumer
Licence
Free
Price
Free
Record Created
2026-09-15
Last Updated
2026-10-10

Vendor

360 built the largest consumer security business in China by giving it away. Zhou Hongyi founded the company in 2005 in Beijing and made its antivirus free at a time when rivals charged for it, which took the market and left advertising and services to earn the revenue. It listed in New York, went private in 2016, and relisted in Shanghai under the code 601360. Its products are household names in China under their Chinese names: 360安全卫士 (360 Security Guard), the utility most Chinese PCs run, with 360杀毒 (360 Antivirus) as the scanner, 360手机卫士 (360 Mobile Security) on phones and 360安全浏览器 as the browser. 360 Total Security is the international edition, and the enterprise products are sold as 360 Enterprise Security Cloud. The scale is domestic and vast, and the international presence is a small part of it. Where results from the European laboratories do exist here, they are usually for 360 Total Security, the export product, rather than for the products Chinese users actually run. Vendor page →

Website
360.cn
Country
China
Headquarters
Beijing, China
Year Established
2005
Customers
20K organisations
Users
550M users
Revenue
≈ $1.2B (2025)

Government restrictions

Banned or sanctioned

US Entity List; DoD list.

WhereMeasureDateEffect
USEntity List2020-06-05Export licence needed (military end-use procurement).
USDoD Chinese military companies (§1260H)2026-06-10DoD may not contract with it from 2026-06-30.

A sales ban, asset freeze, export ban or federal procurement ban that names the company itself. Each measure above names Qihu 360 Software, not this product specifically, and applies only where it says. CSI records what a government has published and links to it; this is not an assessment of the product, and the product stays listed so the record can be read. Lists were last checked on 2026-10-09.

Platforms

Windowsnative

Target Market

Consumer primary

Capabilities

Malware Detectionkeynative
Ransomware Protectionkeynative
Behavioral DetectionkeyNot known
Web Protectionkeynative
Email ProtectionNot known
Host FirewallNot known
Sandbox AnalysisNot known
Cloud-Assisted Scanningnative
Heuristic DetectionNot known
Device ControlNot known
Vulnerability ShieldingNot known
Central Management ConsoleNot known

8 of 12 not yet known — not recorded, which is not the same as not supported.

Pricing

PlanLicencePriced perBilledPrice
SummaryFreenot statedno recurring chargeFree

Versions

  • 15.0.2.1007Windows

The newest release each source names per platform, not every release the vendor has shipped. A release date is shown only where one is recorded.

Independent Tests

Not tested This product does not appear in any test run CSI holds. That is not a low score.

Certifications

OESIS Framework SupportSupported1 activeSupported

Change History

This record was created 2026-09-15. Everything below is what has changed since.

  • 2026-09-23Capability addedCloud-Assisted Scanning: built inevidence
  • 2026-09-23Capability addedWeb Protection: built inevidence
  • 2026-09-23Capability addedRansomware Protection: built inevidence
  • 2026-09-23Capability addedMalware Detection: built inevidence
  • 2026-09-22Product updatedListed in Free Antimalwareevidence
  • 2026-09-22Product updatedListed in Home Antimalwareevidence
  • 2026-09-19Product updatedSold to: Consumerevidence
  • 2026-09-19Pricing plan addedPrice: freeevidence
  • 2026-09-15Product createdNew product listedevidence
  • 2026-09-15Platform addedRuns on Windowsevidence
  • 2026-09-15Certification addedCertified: OESIS Framework Support (Supported)evidence
  • 2026-09-15New versionNew version: 15.0.2.1007 (Windows)evidence

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