How to remove 360 Total Security

What is 360 Total Security

360 Total Security is a legitimate anti-virus program developed by the Chinese company called Qihu 360 Software Co Ltd. and designed to ensure the system security and other features to fight off the threats. Believe it or not, but recent investigation on its effectiveness found out that it does not guard your computer as it should, therefore, categorizing it as a potentially unwanted program with lots of significant downsides. Do not worry, 360 Total Security is a virus-free program, but it does not provide good-quality software for their customers. This way most of the users who rely on its effectiveness intuitively start feeling more confident on the web because their system is allegedly secured. Of course, it is absurd to deny that 360 Total Security does not secure your PC at all, but due to the fact that current cybercriminals have been very proficient in penetrating users’ devices, it just cannot prevent all of the threats and ensure full safety. Besides that, it can report about fake errors or viruses on your computer hence aggressively urging you to obtain the full version to secure your pc even better. Obviously, this is a trick used to steal money from ingoing users. Even if you purchase an extended version it will just remove all of the false errors it displayed previously while running a scan. Developers made it harder to entirely uninstall their software not wanting to release their users. However, we have prepared a set of powerful tools you can apply to fully get rid of this program in the guide below.

How 360 Total Security infected your computer

Likewise any other legal anti-virus software it can be easily downloaded from the official website. Developers made everything possible to attract new users via a worth-looking website and trusty descriptions. It is known that IT companies have to promote their software in order to entice new customers by using advertisement and bundling methods. Depending on a website, it can display various kinds of anti-malware software ads like 360 Total Security claiming that their software is capable of securing your PC from different threats and other information on why it is so important to download it. Of course, it is a regular tool that people use to advertise brand new products. But most of the time it is complex to separate good software from the bad. On top of that, developers also tend to resort to more crafty methods of plugging their software like bundling. It is a well-known form of infiltration when companies pay outside developers for integrating their product offers into installation kits. To illustrate, when people start installing anything they got from the web, they usually do not pay attention to “Advanced” sections in the installation client that can contain some additional programs. Often, it is selected to install these camouflaged offers as default so that an unattentive user could inadvertently install unwanted programs like 360 Total Security. Our team has prepared a full instruction on how to entirely uninstall 360 Total Security from your device. See how to do this below.

Remove 360 Total Security manually for free

Here is a manual step-by-step tutorial for full 360 Total Security removal from your computer. This works 99% and was checked with the latest versions of 360 Total Security installer on operating systems with the latest updates and browser versions.

Remove 360 Total Security from Control Panel

To start removing 360 Total Security you should remove it using Control Panel. It should uninstall correctly, however, we recommend you to use IObit Uninstaller to clean leftover items after uninstalling. Here are instructions for Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8.

Remove 360 Total Security from Windows XP:

1. Click on Start button.
2. Choose Control Panel.
3. Click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Find 360 Total Security.
5. Click Uninstall.

Remove 360 Total Security from Windows 7:

1. Click Start button.
2. Then go to Control Panel.
3. Click Uninstall a Program.
4. Find 360 Total Security and click Uninstall.

Remove 360 Total Security from Windows 8:

1. Hover mouse pointer to the bottom-right corner to see Menu.
2. Click Search.
3. After that click Apps.
4. Then Control Panel.
5. Click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
6. Find 360 Total Security, click Uninstall.

Remove 360 Total Security from Windows 10:

There are 2 ways to uninstall 360 Total Security from Windows 10

Way one

1. Click on the Start button.
2. In opened menu choose Settings.
3. Click on the System tile.
4. Click Apps & features and locate 360 Total Security in the list.
5. Click on it and then click Uninstall button near it.

Way two (classic)

1. Right-click on the Start button.
2. In opened menu choose Programs and Features.
3. Locate 360 Total Security in the list.
4. Click on it and then click Uninstall button above.

Cannot uninstall 360 Total Security

In some cases, 360 Total Security won’t uninstall and gives you message, that “You do not have sufficient access to uninstall 360 Total Security. Please, contact your system administrator” when you try to remove it from Control Panel or “Access denied” error when removing 360 Total Security folder and files. This happens, because file wtc.exe or service does not allow you to do it. In this case I will recommend you to use SpyHunter 5 or Malwarebytes or uninstall 360 Total Security in Safe Mode. To boot in Safe Mode do the following:

1. Reboot your computer.
2. While it starts booting press F8 button.
3. This will open Advanced Boot Options menu.
4. Choose Safe Mode and wait until Windows loads.
5. Go to Control Panel > Uninstall a program and remove 360 Total Security

>> See detailed instructions and video tutorial on how to boot in Safe Mode

360 Total Security files:

360Conf.dll
360Util.dll
CleanPlus.dll
CleanPlus64.dll
360net.dll
360P2SP.dll
360Verify.dll
LiveUpd360.dll
PDown.dll
Safelive.dll
360Base.dll
360Base64.dll
360Common.dll
360NetBase.dll
360TSCommon.dll
360TsLiveUpd.exe
AntiCe.dll
dynlbase.dll
I18N.dll
I18N64.dll
safescan.dll
scanbase.dll
CleanPlus.exe
CleanPlus64.exe
QHVer.dll
360ShellPro.exe
AntiAdwa.dll
CombineExt.dll
Dumpuper.exe
FeedBack.exe
MenuEx.dll
MenuEx64.dll
EfiProc.dll
LiveUpdate360.exe
leakrepair.dll
360DeskAna.exe
360DeskAna64.exe
dynlenv.dll
EfiMon.sys
MiniUI.dll
CrashReport.dll

360 Total Security folders:


C:\Program Files\360
C:\Program Files\360\Total Security
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\360 Security Center
C:\ProgramData\360safe
C:\Users\All Users\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\360 Security Center
C:\Users\All Users\360safe
C:\Users\Ekaterina\AppData\LocalLow\360WD
C:\Users\Ekaterina\AppData\Roaming\360safe
C:\360SANDBOX

360 Total Security registry keys:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\QHSafeTray
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\Directory\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\SD360
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\ShellEx\ContextMenuHandlers\SD360
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\lnkfile\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\SD360
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\MenuEx.SD360MN
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\MenuEx.SD360MN.1
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\360safe.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\QHSafeMain.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\QHSafeTray.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\360TotalSecurity
HKLM\SOFTWARE\360Safe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\360TotalSecurity
HKLM\SOFTWARE\LiveUpdate360
HKU\S-1-5-21-4166692921-2538036398-54097040-1000\Software\360
HKU\S-1-5-21-4166692921-2538036398-54097040-1000\Software\360\360Speedld
HKU\S-1-5-21-4166692921-2538036398-54097040-1000\Software\LiveUpdate360
HKU\360SandBox

How to block ads and pop-ups, offering to download 360 Total Security

As 360 Total Security is mostly distributed via special ads and pop-ups promising to fix windows errors or remove viruses, a good way to avoid installation of 360 Total Security is to block such ads in browsers. There are a couple of programs that have such functions. We recommend you to use AdGuard to remove ads by 360 Total Security from browsers. Download free trial here:

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