Why is 360 Total Security Antivirus free? What's the catch?

Question

Antivirus

Yes, and under advertising distributed. What's the catch?
Maybe they are spying on users? Although all antiviruses spy on users.
Or they are going to monetize the antivirus later, but for now they launch it for free

Answer 1

the quality is barn, now you can’t take money for this, maybe later it will be better.

Answer 2

I've dealt with the 360 ​​several times. In a normal environment, he behaves quietly, you even forget that he is. Memory does not eat much. Usually three or four background processes hang (only 25 megs). Approximately the same reaction to suspicious files with the rest. Here active protection, it seems, is standard. It's nice that you can quickly access the main menu items, incl. to disable active protection for a while. Everything seems to be in order. AVZ4 first issued an interception of keyboard functions by 360, but then analyzed it more deeply and decided that it was not a keylogger after all. Here's just one thing: I have a huge bunch of utilities, text editors, protected by protectors, packers, cryptors on my screw. It is clear how almost any antivirus program will react to them. We whitelist the folders, and, it seems, everything is chul. We also add to the same lists those who barks at (for example, deluge and others like them). And we rest. It's time to upgrade. We are updating. Got a small upgrade as well. We see how he uploads a new version, created a new process, in the system we see a temporary duplicate ... Oyla! Forgot. The next day we try to open our favorite programs ... Nifiga. Here are those that were on the white lists and once he barked at them - all of them are working. We launch those on which he barks for the first time. We're talking about whitelisting. Everything is fine. Let's restart. Works. In short, it's all in cycles. And so on, until you finally get it. Do you think you can get money for this? I think that if I had paid for it, I would have lathered them with a nuclear grenade. So for now, suffer for free. Well, if you use the programs with which he is friends, then there are no special problems.

Answer 3

When I read them "about the company" it says that they have a network on which they earn by monetizing user data. The program itself has the ability to connect all social networks. Perhaps after that advertising will come to them.