'admin' pid='46513' datel Wrote:
'kevinh' pid='46511' datel Wrote:
'avunculus' pid='46507' datel Wrote:i'm always wondering why there are so many hostile Chinese comments at the end of an NQ news report.
NQ's antivirus software has a reputation in China as a 流氓软件, which roughly translates as hoodlum software. The story is their antivirus use to automatically install onto phones and automatically bills you 10RMBs. People who got swindled are generally lower on the economic ladder (people with money all used iphones) where 10RMB is actual money and tend to shout the loudest on the internet. Clearly that's not the case anymore but reputations are hard to shake.
Has there actually ever been any proof of any wrongdoing on the part of NQ in this respect, Kevin, or is it just that, an old rumor?
This is from conversations with my coworker (he has been using Iphone since it first came out, so he has no direct experience with NQ antivirus) from our Chinese office, who comes to our US office every 3 months. He works in Jiangsu Province and people in his team told him of how NQ software used to do this back in the day. I doubt they have any incentive to malign NQ considering these are 20-25 year olds out of college, working for the first time. I don't doubt the veracity of this but you guys are welcome to debate about whether this actually happened.
As for 315 exposing NQ for installing backdoor viruses, he says it's most likely fabricated. 315 is known to get paid by companies to attack competitors.