Qihoo 360 backdoor Shame of security


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Qihoo 360 security browser design out the back door, precisely gives users a great deal of insecurity.

General individual user's computer, more than 90% of the contact between the windows system, this system and the Internet, you need to achieve, at the same time, because between the browser closed loop windows system and the Internetnatural barrier to any instructions from other cloud does not penetrate this layer of protection to reach the windows system. In this way, the windows system in the user's computer to get the best protection, all instructions executed are from the user.

Qihoo 360 browser through the back door, according to the monitor user computer operating process to Qihoo 360 Cloud Security Center issued a request Qihoo 360 cloud the backdoor service system based on the request, given the appropriate DLL that windowsexecutable program library.This DLL through the back door of Qihoo 360 browser directly into the user's windows system.

At this point, the DLL exceedingly amazing, it even has control of the browser from user windows system, it can do things, including but not limited to:

Get the user's files, and upload it to the cloud;

Read and write, add and delete user files;

Monitor user communications;

Change the windows system registry, or important to set the parameters;

Quietly uninstall the competitors' products, and so on.

The same time, the DLL can also be through the back door, directly on the Internet, issued a directive, including but not limited to:

Automatic from Qihoo 360 server download software to install or run;

Instead of the user directly to e-commerce operation;

The release of a Trojan horse or virus, to create a permanent system of services, and so on.

A minor detail, independent investigators in order to allow more users to know Qihoo 360 hidden backdoor fact, but also the results of its investigation by 65 minutes of uninterrupted video full webcast.To ensure that the video content is truly 65 minutes of uninterrupted, splicing, In fact, he spent more than four hours again and again realistic demo until disposable completed, has truly accomplish this forensic work.

Independent investigators pointed out that, the executable DLL is definitely not automatic software updates (software updates persistence), Qihoo 360 security browser automatically updated only in the startup time has nothing to do with this behavior; while it is not the browserpart, download, temporary loader calls will be removed immediately after completing their missions, without leaving any traces.

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