Comments on: IOBit Steals Malwarebytes’ Intellectual Property

By: Annon :D

Annon :D — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:31:20 +0000

IO bit go to hell.
MalwareBytes are the best!!!!
good that i didnt download the IObit’s
“Random Password Generator” it woudnt be so random…

By: fractional ownership

fractional ownership — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:44:30 +0000

Map makes “copyright” their maps by including small mistakes, so if they are used w/o payment it is clear who actually did the work.I think They would have contacted malwarebytes about the FPIt’s my understanding that huge amounts of malware are submitted to IOBit by users

By: Tineye User

Tineye User — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:29:52 +0000

The picture under Who we are, on http://www.iobit.com/about.html does indeed appear to be a stock photo, as you can ascertain by putting http://www.iobit.com/about.html where it says “Paste URL here” on http://www.tineye.com/ and clicking on the happy IOBIT team’s image…

By: Dubliner

Dubliner — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:22:16 +0000

To add to my comment above look at the statement from the company protesting their innocence HERE

http://msmvps.com/blogs/donna/archive/2009/11/03/iobit-is-denies-stealing-of-mbam-database.aspx

There is a mistake in nearly every line – check out with someone who teaches English to Chinese.

Are these stock photos http://www.iobit.com/about.html

If they are doing what Google accused the Chinese of just look at the astonishing range of companies that have been taken in;

http://www.iobit.com/pressroom.html

By: Dubliner

Dubliner — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:56:25 +0000

Is there any evidence that they are Chinese? Their site pretends they are American – look here – http://www.iobit.com/about.html

Is there any evidence that they are phishing or doing other evil things?

By: boni

boni — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:47:33 +0000

Using others hard works for get money without any permission is a bad things…

IObit is not the best security provider but it is stealing other works make it worst…

By: fyrye

fyrye — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:24:08 +0000

I would have added their own executable or other system critical files as malware to the definition update, and had the name as HAHA.GOTYA.MALWARE and randomly change it’s detection rules for a few weeks.
Then later retract it as a false positive a month or 2 later.

1) They would have contacted malwarebytes about the FP
2) It would have given them enough grief to have to edit it each time they used malwarebytes databases.
3) Confused the heck out of them if they blindly added it’s rules, for their own anti-malware to block itself.

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By: Paul Edwards

Paul Edwards — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:12:02 +0000

Hmm, if Iobit is stealing virus definitions- could they also be stealing technical data from their customers computers too? Industrial espionage is big business these days…. Countries like China have been accused of supporting industrial espionage!
http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2007/11/report-chinese-conduct-aggressive-and-large-scale-espionage-against-us.ars

By: Dave Farmer

Dave Farmer — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:52:31 +0000

for might be able to afford to start a company.. something synonamous with “sue the b#***”
2nd on my list: iobit
1st: download.com
malware can be something that is the “consequence” of something that does not work.