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Product

A free and premium antivirus and PC optimization product for consumers that protects against malware, ransomware and privacy threats and helps improve computer performance. It runs on macOS and Windows. It is recorded as supporting host firewall, malware detection, ransomware protection and sandbox analysis. Its record also notes web protection. It is aimed at Consumer buyers.

Current Version
11.0.0.1178
Market
Consumer
Licence
Paid
Price
USD 26.99 / annual
Record Created
2026-08-20
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

macOSnative
Windowsnative

Target Market

Consumer primary

Capabilities

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

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

Pricing

PlanLicencePriced perBilledPrice
SummarySubscriptionnot statedyearlyUSD 26.99

Versions

  • 11.0.0.1178Windows
  • 1.2.6.1003macOS

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
OPSWAT Certified Security ApplicationGold1 activeGold

Change History

This record was created 2026-08-20. Everything below is what has changed since.

  • 2026-09-23Capability addedSandbox Analysis: built inevidence
  • 2026-09-23Capability addedHost Firewall: built inevidence
  • 2026-09-23Capability addedWeb Protection: built inevidence
  • 2026-09-23Capability addedRansomware Protection: built inevidence
  • 2026-09-22Product updatedListed in Home Antimalwareevidence
  • 2026-09-19Product updatedNo longer sold to: Enterpriseevidence
  • 2026-09-19Product updatedSold to: Consumerevidence
  • 2026-09-19Pricing plan addedPrice: USD 26.99 yearlyevidence
  • 2026-09-09New versionNew version: 11.0.0.1178 (Windows)evidence
  • 2026-09-09New versionNew version: 1.2.6.1003 (macOS)evidence
  • 2026-08-20Certification addedCertified: OESIS Framework Support (Supported)evidence
  • 2026-08-20Capability addedMalware Detection: built inevidence
  • 2026-08-20Pricing plan addedPrice: paidevidence
  • 2026-08-20Product updatedSold to: Enterpriseevidence
  • 2026-08-20New versionNew version: 11.0.0.1178evidence
  • 2026-08-20Platform addedRuns on macOSevidence
  • 2026-08-20Platform addedRuns on Windowsevidence
  • 2026-08-20Certification addedCertified: OPSWAT Certified Security Application (Gold)evidence
  • 2026-08-20Product createdNew product listedevidence

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