Seeing quite a few Qihoo '360IS' (English adaption of 360 AV) installs

[Vladimyr]

Anyone else noticed this newly English-language "freemium' product?

The "battle of the search engines" for the hearts and minds of Chinese users has been pretty intense, cut-throat & dirty for some time. Qihoo and Baidu shower potential users with "bling", i.e free apps. These are now spilling over into English-speaking markets.

[Vlk]

The Qihoo 360 product is based on Avira engine. I haven't seen the product in action but I'd assume that if someone wants to go that route, it would be more meaningful to go with the original (which also has a free version available).

Vlk

[Pondus]

The Qihoo 360 product is based on Avira engine. I haven't seen the product in action but I'd assume that if someone wants to go that route, it would be more meaningful to go with the original (which also has a free version available).

Vlk

not according to this Vlk.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qihoo

360 Internet Security 2013 - The first international version of 360 pc security product, launched on June11, 2013. It provides the comprehensive internet protection with triple virus detection engine - QVM engine, Bitdefender engine and cloud engine - and protects users against the latest security threats.

[Vladimyr]

Right-on Pondus!
Vlk, I've sent you a PM with some extra comments.