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Malwarebytes: IObit Stole Our Signatures Database

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on Tuesday, 3 November 2009
(3 weeks ago)

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Malwarebytes accuses Chinese antivirus vendor IObit of stealing its intellectual property and threatens to pursue legal action.
Despite the solid evidence presented by Malwarebytes, IObit denies any wrongdoing and plans to respond through its lawyers.Malwarebytes Corporation is a US-based company developing several security-oriented applications.
Its flagship and most popular product is called Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware (MBAM), which comes in both free and commercial flavors and is particularly renowned for its ability to remove rogueware.In a post published on its official blog yesterday, Malwarebytes takes aim at IObit for allegedly stealing its signatures.
"Malwarebytes has recently uncovered evidence that a company called IOBit based in China is stealing and incorporating our proprietary database and intellectual property into their software," the company announces.It all started with a report that the IObit Security 360 application detects a Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware key generator as Don’t.Steal.Our.Software.A, a name specifically created and used by Malwarebytes.
"Why would IOBit detect a keygen for our software and refer to it using our database name?" the company asked.In order to put their suspicions to the test, Malwarebytes researchers crafted a dummy malware sa...

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