360 is acting like a hooligan, why should it forcefully uninstall Kingsoft Network Shield?

What a shame!

The past life of 360 Security Guards, 3721 Chinese Internet! The top ten rogue software in China!

Take a look at the past life of 360 Security Guard:

There were only 5 people in the R&D team, 70 million computers (more than 95% of Internet users at that time) were "rogue", and the annual net profit reached 60 million ;

Defeated Yahoo, Jack Ma, Baidu, CNNIC and other well-known companies in the industry by spreading rumors, slandering and smearing opponents;

Showing the hypocrisy of "angel investment" to others , secretly owns the largest forum gunman company in the country, and tens of thousands of gunmen turn opponents from angels to demons overnight;

Fabricating lies such as "antivirus companies create viruses" and "antivirus software is always free", Attempting to use the anti-virus software model to bring "3721 back to life";

There are people in the core team who are constantly condemned by their conscience and run away, and the "gangster godfather" Zhou Hongyi is already alone;

...this is Zhou Hongyi and his Qihoo 360, an industry tycoon who has not yet revealed his true face, a "Yue Buqun in the IT industry" who appears to be loyal on the outside but treacherous on the inside.

Zhou Hongyi started his career with 3721 and made a huge profit of 60 million a year

In 1995, Zhou Hongyi graduated from the System Engineering Department of Xi'an Jiaotong University School of Management with a master's degree;

In October 1998, Zhou Hongyi founded Internet Guofeng Company. The company's only product was the 3721 Chinese Internet plug-in, which has since become famous in the industry.

In 2002, 3721 reached its peak of glory. The plug-in invaded 70 million computers within a year, with annual revenue exceeding 140 million and net profit exceeding 60 million. At the Spring Festival Gala that year, Zhou Hongyi spent a fortune and spent 20 million yuan to put the phrase "No matter what, it's easier to surf the Internet in Chinese" on CCTV everywhere like a dog-skin plaster. .

In contrast, in 2002, Jack Ma's Alibaba, Robin Li's Baidu, Ding Lei's NetEase and other companies were still on the dividing line between bankruptcy and profitability. Even if they were profitable, they were only a few million dollars.

, which is an order of magnitude less than the profit brought by the rogue plug-in 3721.

In contrast, the anti-virus market in 2002 was tepid, and the combined net profit of the entire anti-virus industry was not much more than that of 3721.

3721 successfully used virus technology to mislead a generation of programmers

The plug-in 3721 has almost reached the technical peak. It has penetrated into the bottom layer of the system and adopted Many viruses may not use methods such as driving, deformation, anti-uninstallation, self-protection, and hook injection. Even professional programmers are sometimes at a loss to completely uninstall it.

Many virus writers at that time highly praised the driver technology of 3721. Even the famous Jiang Haike (the founder of Antiy Labs) in Baidao wrote an article specifically discussing the 3721 plug-in.

Article on what is a virus.

After prosperity and decline, in the face of huge profits, 3721's reputation has been destroyed to the extreme, and its bad reputation has even affected the brands of its peers. Some people even put industry leaders such as Sina and Sohu in the same category as 3721, calling them "Internet scammers and Internet hooligans."

What’s even worse is that the money-making effect of 3721 has spoiled a large number of programmers and misled a large number of free software. Many authors of free software saw this bad way of making money and began to learn from it.

Some free software also directly bundles the 3721 plug-in. Every time you install 3721, you will get a reward ranging from 0.3 yuan to 1 yuan from Zhou Hongyi.

This way of "making money" has deeply affected the ethos of China's software industry from the bottom of thought. From then on, no one delved deeply into technology or studied user needs, but thought about how to "plug in".

Insert more computers, make it impossible for users to remove it after insertion, and get more money from 3721."

This example of "bad money drives out good money, bad guys are good and good people suffer" made the Chinese Internet world at that time full of chaos and chaos.

3721’s small tricks defeated Baidu

The growth history of 3721 and the success history of Zhou Hongyi are a history of blood and tears of netizens and a history of oppression by other companies.

Zhou Hongyi used virus technology to bully users so that they could not uninstall; he used despicable means to smear, slander, and spread rumors to defeat his opponents, which was what he was best at during the period. From Baidu to Yahoo, from Jack Ma, Jerry Yang to Robin Li, they are all defeated by Zhou Hongyi.

The feud between Baidu and Yahoo is because Baidu has "Baidu Soba", which has similar functions to the 3721 plug-in and provides Chinese website functions. Because of this, 3721 mobilized the media to accuse Baidu of being unable to uninstall; mobilized forums to accuse Baidu of being a hooligan; and wrote a letter of exposure to relevant state agencies, saying that Baidu supports certain Baidu often cannot access things that are not permitted by national law.

What’s more serious is that 3721 will even release some drivers when uninstalling. Its function is only to cause blue screens in the products of rivals such as Baidu and cnnic, making users unable to use rival products normally

.

For CNNIC, the means of dealing with it are even simpler. Zhou Hongyi claimed in the media that "CNNIC is a liar institution that pulls the skin of the government to bully small businesses"; using Gunman Mountain

These media, rumors, and technical means were used, whether Baidu or CNNIC, They were all beaten to pieces.

Rogue 3721 was sold for 1 billion yuan, and Zhou Hongyi went undercover on Yahoo to stage "Infernal Affairs"

In 2003, 3721, whose reputation had sunk to the 18th level of hell, became a masterpiece in Zhou Hongyi's hands Hot potato cannot be put on the market (American law is not fun), and income is on the decline (netizens are maturing). As a result, an "idiot in white" appeared at this time. Yahoo! USA spent US$120 million to acquire 3721 and restructured it into Yahoo China Company.

According to the exchange rate at the time, the price was almost 1 billion yuan.

Zhou Hongyi originally wanted to take this opportunity to repackage himself and become a respected "Internet leader." Who knew that Yahoo's headquarters in the United States had extremely strict management and did not give it a chance to play? As a result, after a year, I had to leave Yahoo.

This departure was not for nothing. At that time, Zhou Hongyi had already made a lot of related contracts, sent his confidants to Yahoo in the United States to learn the core technology of Yahoo search, and diverted Yahoo's resources and talents away a large number of times. , contracts, everything.

At that time, Google was at its peak and Baidu had just gone public. Zhou Hongyi left Yahoo happily and wanted to build his own search empire. To do big things, of course you need money! Search is a

money-eating industry. Microsoft invested five billion US dollars and didn't even hear a sound.

Raising funds has become Zhou Hongyi’s top priority. Because of his unhappy departure, Jerry Yang even threatened to "ban Zhou Hongyi among VCs around the world." And Zhou Hongyi only had a little money from selling 3721

, so searching was really a drop in the bucket.

So Zhou Hongyi thought of a way and declared to "do community search, cut into search from market segments, and create a new Google."

It must be said that this slogan is very tempting. Zhou finally defrauded 50 million US dollars from Sequoia Capital and other VCs, and a brand new brand: "Qihoo" was launched.

This is the past life of the gangster now known as "Qihoo 360".

Although Zhou Hongyi used the title of "angel investor" to deceive countless VCs and ignorant netizens, his "gangster godfather" stinky background

is something that cannot be gotten rid of. In the words of Qi Xiangdong, President of Qihoo, "If you have been a gangster once, you will always be a gangster in your life."

Of course, this sentence was made by Qi Xiangdong scolding Ma Yun. Because now 3721 has been sold to Yahoo China... which is a subsidiary of Jack Ma.

Qihoo 360 Massacre 3721 Zhou Hongyi turns against Yahoo

Zhou Hongyi wants to do "community search", but the technical threshold required for search is very high. What should he do?

Of course, the rogue godfather thought of the method he relied on for success: IE plug-ins. However, this time his method was more subtle and more confusing to netizens. He made a "3721

enhanced version" specifically designed to kill 3721, which was later known as 360 Security Guard.

In 2006, China’s Internet was in darkness. The rogue software headed by 3721 has caused chaos. And the patience of netizens has been pushed to the limit. At this time, Zhou Hongyi's Qihu appeared as a savior: he released Qihu 360 Security Guard. The core of developing this thing is the core team that has written the 3721 plug-in, and the key personnel of this team have gone to Yahoo in the United States to further study driver-level plug-in writing technology.

God can personally destroy the human beings he created, and founder Zhou Hongyi certainly has the means to destroy 3721. At this time, 3721 has been completely sold to Yahoo. After killing it, it can bring honor to itself.

It can also severely damage Yahoo Yang Zhiyuan's China strategy and avenge himself for being fired.

Sure enough, the new gangster king easily killed the old gangster king. 3721 plug-in and Yahoo Assistant, two rogue software owned by Yahoo (which Zhou had sold to them) were killed and disarmed.

Based on the simple theory of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend", many netizens were deceived and worshiped 360 Security Guard as a god, completely forgetting that it was just a new generation of gangsters born out of 3721.

I am not saying this with any bias. If you don’t believe it, please read the manual of the 2005 version of the 3721 plug-in. One of the function descriptions clearly says:

“Completely kill 3878 malicious scripts and 1200 selected popular Trojans!” < /p>

Think again about what 360 Security Guard has always claimed: its powerful Trojan detection and killing capabilities for Trojan viruses. Are you smart enough to not think of anything fishy in it?

Big reveal: Before Zhou Hongyi left Yahoo, he used 3721 to lay a Trojan ambush

Next, I will tell you a big secret about Zhou Hongyi and the Trojan. The value of this secret is enough for Zhou Pay one million dollars to buy this great head of mine.

Before Zhou Hongyi was forced to leave Yahoo, he used 3721 to do a big thing: he planted backdoors, including dlls and drivers, on user machines through 3721 clients spread across the country. The password to open this backdoor is known only to Zhou and a few core technicians.

This is the biggest reason why Qihoo 360 can make users feel particularly easy to use as soon as it is launched. Because the Trojans it kills were all planted by the 3721 client before.

If you grow it yourself and kill it yourself, the effect will certainly be great.

In order to maintain the reputation of Qihoo 360, Zhou has been doing this: constantly creating Trojans and rogue software, and then constantly detecting and killing them.

Do you still remember that when 360 Security Guard was first launched, it mainly focused on killing some big gangsters?

Yahoo Assistant, 3721, Baigou plug-in (Wulin Bang Company), dudu plug-in, 9991.com

Among the five major hooligans, Yahoo Assistant and 3721 were created by Zhou himself. Baigou was invested by Zhou, 9991.Com was launched by Zhou through 3721, and only the dudu plug-in was the work of Chen Yizhou.

Zhou Hongyi single-handedly created four of the five major gangsters, and he is indeed worthy of the title of "The Godfather of Gangsters".

Zhou Hongyi’s search dream failed, but he had no choice but to bet on free antivirus

From 2005 when he was forced to leave Yahoo, to 2008, Zhou Hongyi’s Qihoo went through four years.

In four years, Zhou Hongyi only did one and a half things. One thing is: it proves that the so-called community search is not feasible, and the $50 million originally raised is in danger of being wasted.

Half of the story is this: Inadvertently, Qihoo 360 Security Guard, the “illegitimate child of 3721,” took root and sprouted, deceiving the sincere support of tens of millions of users across the country. By 2008, the large and small shareholders who had originally invested US$50 million had given up hope in the success of the search and put a lot of pressure on Zhou to get their investment back.

But everyone knows that money is easy to spend, but getting it back is as impossible as turning the sperm spot on a condom into a baby. But Zhou Hongyi must give an explanation to shareholders, what should he do?

He set his sights on the anti-virus industry.

There are only six major manufacturers in the antivirus industry: domestic Rising, Jiangmin, and Kingsoft, and foreign Norton, Trend, and Kaspersky. The power of Norton and Trend in the personal market is negligible. Therefore

Zhou Hongyi's opponent this time is Ruijin Jiangka.

Among these four manufacturers, Teacher Wang Jiangmin’s main focus is on real estate. As the saying goes: If a bird’s wings are hung with a house, it will never fly again. What's more, Teacher Wang has dozens of properties in prime locations in Beijing under his name. Antivirus is just Wang's hobby.

Although Kingsoft has been listed on the market, its executives have fled like flying swallows, and their combat effectiveness has almost been reduced to copycat rebels. Although Kaspersky has a strong momentum, it is still an outsider after all.

Its strength is limited as strong dragons cannot overwhelm local snakes.

Rising, which currently occupies the largest market share, is short-sighted, and its style is somewhat flattering when it is said to be "steady". To be honest, it is a bit short-sighted and does not want to make progress while occupying a golden job. Look down, look left, look right,

These four opponents really feel sorry for their own consciences if they don't bully them.

If we can capture all the profits from the anti-virus industry, we can be worthy of the US$50 million shareholders.

The anti-virus industry's "shit stirrup", tens of thousands of gunmen and four major rumors attack the three anti-virus giants

Past facts have proven that wherever there is Zhou Hongyi, there are Jianghu; Wherever there are rivers and lakes, there are all kinds of rumors, disputes, slanders and slanders. As Mark Twain said in "Running for Governor": Your loyal friend, who used to be a decent man, is now a perjurer, a thief, a body-snatcher, a drunkard, a briber. and the blackmailer’s Mark Twain.

Originally, the anti-virus industry was one of the few remaining software fields in China. With the help of a relatively high technical threshold and a grasp of localized user needs, China's anti-virus software industry has withstood the attacks of international giants such as Symantec, Trend

and Microsoft. Although Jinshan Jiangmin Ruixing has various minor problems, it is essentially a good national enterprise, ensuring the independent intellectual property rights of the anti-virus industry, contributing tax revenue to the country

and bringing benefits to users Safe.

In 80% of the countries in the world, the anti-virus software industry has been monopolized by international giants. Under such circumstances, the persistence of Jiangmin Jinshan Rising has, in a certain sense, become a symbol of the domestic high-tech industry

Because of them, China's IT industry has not completely declined. It is the lowest part of the international industrial chain.

If I were to rate three domestic anti-virus manufacturers, although they could not get 100 points, they would still get 80 points. After all, this is China’s own company! But these companies, under Zhou Hongyi's attack, have become "shameless thieves, liars, and gangsters."

Speaking of which, we must mention one thing, and that is Qihoo’s Gunners team. Ordinary users may not know that there is a team of tens of thousands of forum gunmen under the control of Zhou Hongyi.

This team has extremely strong combat effectiveness and can basically cover more than 95% of the forums in the country.

There are three important factors that make this team possible: First, Discuz! It is one of the largest forum program providers in China. Forums built using this program account for the vast majority of domestic forums, and Zhou Hongyi is the company's largest shareholder.

Second, Qihoo Company originally wanted to conduct a forum search and the so-called "Spider Plan". With the help of this name, he has reached cooperative relationships with moderators of many forums, and is actually able to control the forum public opinion.

Third, Zhou Hongyi was willing to spend money and found the right group of shooters. Most of the gunners controlled by Zhou are college students and disabled people. They are dedicated to their work and can tolerate meager remuneration. Zhou also praised himself privately and said, "We can use these vulnerable groups to help those in need."

From the day they formulated the plan to enter the anti-virus industry, Zhou's Gunners team had the beginning of the plan. Spread various rumors about anti-virus manufacturers. These rumors include:

1. There are huge profits in the anti-virus industry, and anti-virus manufacturers are sucking the blood and sweat of users.

2. Antivirus companies create their own viruses.

3. Chinese anti-virus companies use other people’s engines and do not have their own technology.

4. Anti-virus companies can only kill viruses, not Trojans. 360 is more professional in killing Trojans.

Think about it, have similar posts appeared in batches on the forum recently? Is the poster a newly registered user? Are those forums that often pin these posts

members of Qihoo Alliance Advertising?

That’s right! Qihoo is using the forum to discredit the anti-virus industry, and then enters as an "angel".

Although these rumors are all false, they are still somewhat confusing to ordinary users. I will reluctantly refute them to prevent everyone from being used as a weapon by Qihoo.

The first one is about the claim that anti-virus companies create viruses. Rising was founded in 1991, Jiangmin was founded in 1996, Kingsoft entered the anti-virus industry a little later, but it has a history of nearly 20 years starting from WPS.

If they created the virus, they would have been exposed long ago, right? What's more, creating a virus is a criminal offense, and serious cases may even face up to ten years in prison. Under such severe punishment, who would dare to actually create

poison? (Speaking of this, there is an issue that needs to be strictly distinguished. The drivers and DLLs released by Zhou Hongyi through 3721, if strictly regarded as viruses, they are high-tech gray software, which is difficult in a legal sense

Convicted.)

Second, there is huge profit in the anti-virus industry. This statement is even more nonsense. Kingsoft has been in business for such a long time. In 2007, its revenue was only 100 million, and a profit of 30 million would be good. A 30% profit, even in a traditional industry, is hardly a huge profit. Kingsoft's profit margin in the anti-virus industry is quite high.

Ruixing and Kaba have been engaged in a price war, and it is even as cheap as 20 yuan for half a year and 30 yuan for a year. One year of use of anti-virus software is equivalent to just over a pound of pork and 15 pounds of tomatoes.

At such a price, it’s just ridiculous to be able to make huge profits.

The third one is about autonomous technology. When Kingsoft entered the anti-virus industry, it did purchase Russian engines. In the early days of Jiangmin anti-virus software, it also learned from the engine structure of AVP (now called Kaspersky). Ruixing didn't know and didn't dare to tell nonsense. But everyone must know that long-term development cannot be achieved by purchasing and borrowing technology, especially now that the intellectual property protection of foreign devils is becoming more and more strict. copy

A foreign movie requires millions of claims to buy an engine. How much does it cost? How much do domestic manufacturers earn?

So, there is no need to question the technology of the three domestic manufacturers, which is 100% our own.

Fourth, anti-virus companies can only kill viruses, not Trojans. 360 is more professional in killing Trojans.

This is even more funny. Zhou Hongyi has been shouting about "killing Trojans" since 3721. Is rogue software more capable of killing Trojans?

It seems to be saying that it is more effective to use gangsters to catch thieves.

Moreover, Trojans are inherently a type of virus. You can try searching for trojan on Google to see which mainstream manufacturer does not list Trojans as viruses?

Use "free antivirus" to bring 3721 back to life

In addition to rumors, Zhou Hongyi also used the most ruthless trick: free!

Chinese netizens are poor, easy to deceive, and their memories are not very good. They have forgotten that "3721 can also kill 1,200 popular Trojans."

Moreover, Zhou Hongyi borrowed a specious theory: Google is free and QQ is free, so antivirus should also be free. "The free business model is successful", even if users

use it for free, it will always be free.

What he did not tell netizens is: Those free things will always be charged elsewhere. Google search is free, so there are ads above its results; QQ is free, so there are QQ shows that cost one yuan a piece. If you don't spend money, you have to run around naked.

When reporters interviewed this "business model of free anti-virus software", Zhou said, "I didn't think about it."

He is lying habitually again. "I didn't think about it." When he said this, Qihoo 360 had signed a contract with Sina to use 360 ??Guard and 360 Antivirus to pop up news windows during the Olympics.

In 16 days, Sina paid 2 million.

Make a lot of money? If you follow this price, Qihoo's minimum annual income from this free anti-virus software is: 2 million * 365/16 = 45.62 million. If we increase the intensity of pop-ups, it will not be a problem to make 3.5 billion a year.

Based on the original price of 3721, if the revenue in 2002 was 140 million, Zhou Hongyi could earn at least 1 billion every year by using free anti-virus software to act rogue.

This is the little calculation behind "free antivirus software"! I would like to ask, users who are now proudly using 360 Antivirus, do you know that computers in the future will be occupied by rogues?

Some people say, at worst, I don’t need it! What a joke, you couldn't even uninstall the 3721 plug-in in 2002. Now, can you still uninstall the 360 ??anti-virus?

What Guo Degang said: No one can stop gangsters who know martial arts. Zhou Hongyi is a gangster. He has a master's degree in what can be called "high-tech martial arts." Practice has proved that neither the law nor the users can stop this rogue.

Qihoo’s technical team suffered from conscience reprimands, and people kept leaving

Not long ago, a confession written by a suspected former Qihoo employee went viral on the Internet, which stated: “Because of 360 We need to make a strategic transformation. We cannot bear the condemnation of our conscience and the pressure of work. Our project team has been transferred to a new project team! Do you know what the research points are? ”

OK, is this employee’s post truly a proxy test? It’s absolutely true that people from Zhou Hongyi’s core team are constantly leaving. Do you still remember Tian Jian? Former vice president of 3721, he joined Yahoo with Zhou Hongyi

. Later, he and Zhou turned against each other and even went to the point of scolding each other in person.

Do you still remember Shu Xun? The marketing manager in the 3721 era jumped up and down in the media and forums, and later joined the rival company Baidu as the marketing director of the enterprise department.

Do you still remember Xiao Jie? She followed Zhou Hongyi from the 3721 era, and went through Yahoo and Qihoo. One or two people supported the public relations team and made great contributions to Zhou Hongyi's harmful career. Later, she also entered Baidu to seek new development.

Fu Sheng founded the 360 ??Security Guard team in 2006. Zhou Hongyi resigned at the same time as he released the 360 ??anti-virus software. The reason is unknown. Come to think of it, the psychological pressure of being such a gangster king is not something ordinary people can bear.

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This list can be very long. If you are interested, you can use Google and Baidu to search for the old employees of 3721, and you will find a lot of interesting things.

Although there may be other reasons, I still believe with the greatest goodwill that the departure of these employees has something to do with their conscience.

This post is long and far from over. Qi Hu, Zhou Hongyi, as long as he exists for a day, his shady stories will continue to emerge. Sometimes, I find that the pen is really heavy and the words are really pale.

I cannot write one ten thousandth of the dark heart.

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