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April 17, 2014 06:20 AM ET

IDG News Service - Microsoft may have retired Windows XP, but one of China's leading security vendors is trying to keep the OS threat-free, and rolling out protection software to hundreds of millions of users in the nation.

On April 8, Microsoft officially ended support to the OS, meaning that Windows XP users will no longer receive security updates from the company. In preparation, Chinese security vendor Qihoo 360 has been developing its own free "XP Shield" software for Chinese PC users.

It has become one of the biggest projects for Qihoo 360, whose security products already have 470 million users. Since XP Shield was launched in late February, over 90 percent of the company's Windows XP users have downloaded the software, Sun Xiaojun, a security engineer with the company, said Wednesday. That puts its users at 200 million, he added.

Qihoo 360 has been among the security vendors in the country offering Windows XP protection software in the wake of Microsoft ending support to OS. In China, the operating system is still quite popular, and has a 70 percent share of the local market, according to Sun.

"We did a preliminary study and found that about two-thirds of Chinese users may not decide to upgrade their OS after Microsoft cuts support to Windows XP," he said in an interview.

Qihoo 360 and other rivals in China's security industry have tried to fill the void. Many Chinese are still accustomed to Windows XP and don't wish to upgrade because of the costs, Sun said. In the case of its XP Shield product, most of the users are regular PC consumers.

The company's software was put to the test earlier this month, when another Chinese security vendor held the "XP Challenge". Hackers were invited to find vulnerabilities in the XP security software from Qihoo 360, and two other Chinese companies, Tencent and Kingsoft. After a day of competition, only Qihoo 360's software came out unscathed.

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The Heartbleed bug revealed limitations with the software protecting banks and other key websites.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney)

They're all volunteers. And only one does it as a full-time job.

Their labor of love is OpenSSL, a free program that secures a lot of online communication. And it was a tiny coding slip-up two years ago that caused the Heartbleed bug, a hole that allows attackers to peer into computers. The bug forced emergency changes last week at major websites like Facebook (FB, Fortune 500), Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) and Yahoo (YHOO, Fortune 500).

But security experts say OpenSSL is severely underfunded, understaffed and largely ignored.

The bug wasn't caught until recently, because the OpenSSL Software Foundation doesn't have the resources to properly check every change to the software, which is now nearly half a million lines of code long. And yet that program guards a vast portion of our commerce and government -- including weapon systems and smartphones, the foundation claims.

Related story: Heartbleed Bug explained

"The mystery is not that a few overworked volunteers missed this bug; the mystery is why it hasn't happened more often," Steve Marquess, the foundation's president, said in an open letter.

When weighed against its critical importance to Internet security, OpenSSL has a shoestring budget. It has never received more than $1 million a year, Marquess said. The only federal support listed online was a single $20,000 renewal contract from the Department of Defense.

While the foundation receives money from the Department of Homeland Security, Citrix (CTXS) and others, the vast majority of its funding is from specific work-for-hire contracts. A company wants a certain feature added here, a specific function there. It keeps developers busy. But Marquess said there's no money going toward reviewing the code or performing audits.

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