MalwareBytes replied that IOBits Denial of Theft Unconvincing. Update November 15, 2009: Iobit initialy denied the charge from MalwareBytes but their denial seems to have been removed from their website. Malwarebytes Free exists to wipe out attackers that get past your main defenses or that already compromised your PC before you could install protection. NOTE: The forum posting is duplicated on the Malwarebytes blog posting: IOBit Steals Malwarebytes Intellectual Property. Sure enough, a search for IObit at, , and came up empty at each site.Īt this point, I wouldn't touch any software from IObit with a ten foot pole. The web page for IObit Security 360 claims the software was "featured" at places that have no information about it at all. The website rating will probably fall shortly.Ī commenter at CNET pointed out something else interesting. WOT, however, does not have a central ruler, their ratings come from their customers, many of whom have started commenting on the ethical issues involving IObit. Web of Trust (WOT) currently rates the IObit website positively. ![]() Here's hoping that CNET, Majorgeeks and other software repositories remove IObit Security 360 from their systems. Ironically, they gave Malwarebytes Anti-Malware only 4.5 stars. Over at, CNET editors gave IObit Security 360 version 1.10 five stars out of five. ![]() We are in the process of contacting these vendors." "During the course of our investigation, we uncovered additional evidence that IOBit may have stolen the proprietary databases of other security vendors as well. Kleczynski concludes his forum posting with: Download it now to detect and remove all kinds of malware like viruses, spyware, and other advanced threats. You can see this in a screen shot posted by Malwarebytes. Lo and behold, IObit Security 360 also detects it as malware, even using the same phony "Don't." name. I also scanned it with MBAM and, as shown below, it was flagged it as Don't. I downloaded dummy.exe and scanned it at VirusTotal which gave it a clean bill of health. as well as CCleaner, Malwarebytes, and other programs to catch the bad stuff. Within two weeks IOBit was detecting these fake files under almost exactly these fake names."Īs further proof Malwarebytes offers a safe, non-malicious executable program, dummy.exe, that was tweaked to match a signature in their database. If you ever download from or cnet, which used to be reputable. We even manufactured fake files to match the fake definitions. We'll need to wait for an MBAM staffer to address your concerns directly. I strongly suggets that they no longer be utilized an a new cite be found where to obtain Malwarebytes free version. Malwarebytes free version is beging hosted by them. ![]() This "malware" does not actually exist: we made it up. As of late CNET has become very untrust worthy. Again quoting Kleczynski: "The final confirmation of IOBit's theft occurred when we added fake definitions to our database for a fake rogue application. These were not statements we made lightly." "We conducted this investigation thoroughly over a period of weeks until we were 100% sure of everything we wrote above.
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