360 Total security review (2015) - a decent free software

360 TS is the latest free system optimization and antivirus tool in the market. It was launched last year by the developer of 360 security Android app, Qihu. This application has promising features. In the coming months, it might be considered as a good alternative to System mechanic, TuneUp utilities and other similar softwares.

Installer of 360 total security is one of the best one I’ve seen till date. When you run the setup, you can specify the installation folder or language from its window. This application from Qihu requires minimum 125 megabyte of free space on your hard disk. The installation process will load the main application as soon as it exits. This free Windows software comes with the below tools.

360 Total security review (2015)

Toolbox

This section of 360 TS includes 3 tools, patch up, system backup cleaner and sandbox. Downloaded softwares might be infected with malware, viruses. To safely execute such programs, you should use this utility. When i tried to use the sandbox tool, the application was throwing an error. Here’s the screenshot for the same.

The patch-up utility failed to run as well. The last tool in this section, backup cleaner will scan your PC for unused driver and system backup files. Once it finds junk files, this application will display a clean button with which you can remove the useless files residing on your Windows PC.

Cleanup

If you want to clean temporary system, old windows legacy files, unused browser plugins, cache file created by smartphone PC suites, images, videos, run the clean utility of this app. This is an impressive feature as it detects invalid shortcuts, useless plugins that are residing on the storage memory of your computer. The UI of this tool is good. The calculations displayed on the interface are not accurate. As you can see in the below image, this app has detected 24GB of junk files on my PC.

After unchecking the windows legacy files option, the total cleanup size remains unchanged.

Speedup

This section includes myBoottime and easy speedup tab. The first tab will display a graph of time taken by your PC to boot windows. Even after restarting my PC for a couple of times, the graph was not updated. The easy speedUp section includes utilities to optimize network speed, disable start-up applications that are useless (according to 360 Total security).

Cloud virus scanner

360 total security application features a cloud virus scanner. It has full, custom, quick scan options. Detected malware and virus files, invalid registry entries will be analyzed online before any action is taken on it. The quick scan utility is fast. It will scan commonly installed apps, system settings, files, memory and other important locations that are commonly targeted by viruses. Detected malicious executable files can be whitelisted by the user.

Twitter and Facebook Login

If you are impressed with this free software and if you want to make your friends aware of it, login with your Facebook and twitter account by clicking on icons that you see in the title bar. To be honest, this is an useless feature.

Full Check: If you run this utility, 360 total security will automatically run each of the above mentioned tools one by one.

Browser Integration

360 total security supports browser integration. Once it has been installed on your Windows computer, open your browser. On startup, you’ll be promoted to install the official 360 TS plugin. This plugin will prevent you from accessing phishing, virus infected sites. It will also scan every file you download.

Final thoughts

Version 6.0.0.1154 of 360 TS is a badly coded software but its features are interesting. The virus engine is powerful as it detected 2 malicious files on my Norton Internet security installed Windows 7 PC. The system cleaner has some features that you’ll not find in a similar paid software. The next release of 360 total security is expected to be free from the above mentioned bugs.