Is so.com legit or a scam?
Official 360 Search engine (Chinese) with 27-year domain history; clean security scan but prior regulatory action for misleading medical advertising.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
MT Intelligence
so.com is the genuine homepage for 360 Search (360搜索), a major Chinese search engine launched by Qihoo 360 in 2012 and operating since 1999. Our antivirus network shows zero malicious detections across 91 engines, clean browser blocklists, and a hosting IP with zero abuse reports. The domain is registered to Beijing Haosou Dianjing Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Qihoo 360, with active business registration in China. The 2021 CCTV exposé and subsequent 200 million RMB fine from Beijing market regulators for publishing fake medical advertisements is a legitimate regulatory action against the operator, not evidence of current malicious intent — the company issued a public apology and committed to remediation. No recent scam reports, phishing indicators, or credential-harvesting patterns appear in our research. The site's age (registered 1999), consistent branding, and integration with 360's broader ecosystem (nameservers, SSL issuer, external domains) all confirm operational legitimacy.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for so.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- so.com is the official domain for 360 Search (360搜索), a major Chinese search engine launched in 2012 by Qihoo 360 (奇虎360 / Beijing Qihu Technology).
- Domain registered on 1999-04-15, expires 2027-07-15; uses nameservers under 360safe.com; privacy-protected WHOIS via eName Technology Co., Ltd.
- Markets itself as "safe, precise, and trustworthy" (安全、精准、可信赖), emphasizing phishing/malware blocking based on 360's security brand; slogan "360搜索，SO靠谱".
- In 2021, exposed by CCTV 3·15 for publishing fake medical advertisements; operating company fined 2 million RMB by Beijing market regulators; issued apology and promised rectification.
- Historical disputes with Baidu over scraping, robots.txt violations, default search settings, and excessive advertising; reached ~35% Chinese market share by end of 2015.
- No recent scam reports, Trustpilot, or ScamAdviser ratings specifically for so.com as a malicious site; unrelated results refer to other "so.com" or SOCOM entities.
- Now includes AI features (transformed in 2022); aggregates results from multiple engines while maintaining safety focus.
Operated by Beijing Haosou Dianjing Technology Co., Ltd. (subsidiary of Qihoo 360 / Beijing Qihu Technology Co., Ltd.); domain registered 1999, WHOIS via eName Technology Co., Ltd., nameservers dns1.360safe.com
Our research confirmed so.com as the official domain for 360 Search, operated by Qihoo 360 (Beijing Qihu Technology Co., Ltd.) since 1999. In March 2021, CCTV's consumer-protection program exposed the site for publishing fraudulent medical advertisements, resulting in a 2 million RMB fine from Beijing market regulators. The company issued a public apology and committed to remediation. No recent scam reports, phishing complaints, or malicious-site listings appear in independent sources. The domain maintains active business registration in China and continues development (AI features added in 2022).
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed (12220240001).
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://so.com/
- 2200https://www.so.com/?src=so.comcross-domain
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on so.com and not a lookalike like s-o.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on so.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- so.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 83/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. so.com presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by WoTrus CA Limited · WoTrus DV Server CA [Run by the Issuer], expiring in 112 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- so.com is 27.2 years old, registered on 4/15/1999 through eName Technology Co., Ltd.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 91 antivirus engines in our malware network report so.com as clean.
- No. so.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- so.com resolves to an IP operated by QiHU 360 Inc. in US (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 7, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around so.com have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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