August 10, 2007, the reporter in Qihoo official website See, as of 2005, Qihoo security Guardian Software listed Yahoo Assistant software as "malicious software", Qihoo formally apologized to Alibaba company.
August 13, the reporter called Alibaba, according to Yahoo China responsible for Mr. Xu, because the two sides dispute is very fierce, long time can not be resolved in private, the final court in July 2007 10 finally ruled: Qihoo infringed the Beijing Alibaba Information Technology Co., Ltd. 's legal rights, Must make a public apology on the homepage of the website 24 hours, and compensation for Yahoo 30,000 yuan loss.
At the same time, the appeal fee of more than 40,000 yuan by the Qihoo to pay.
Mr. Xu said: Yahoo Assistant is the so-called "malicious software", users download the use of security prompts, users can decide whether to download, Yahoo Assistant is definitely a "health software."
Mr. Xu told reporters, "Yahoo Assistant" suffered a long time "rogue" accusations, in the name of a considerable injury, the judge's final decision for Yahoo to recover a justice. Yahoo China does not want to provoke any "war", but does not want to allow users to be misled, so that users become the ultimate victim.
"For some companies that are not at the same level of competition, Alibaba will not do anything about it," Mr Xu said. ”