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Security Bloggers Network: IOBit Steals Malwarebytes’ Intellectual Property [miekiemoes]
Security Bloggers Network: IOBit Steals Malwarebytes’ Intellectual Property [miekiemoes]
Computerworld Blogs - Security: IObit accused of stealing from Malwarebytes
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RT @tweetmeme Malwarebytes blog » Blog Archive » IOBit Steals Malwarebytes’ Intellectual Property http://bit.ly/3eZunF 12 days ago |
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RT @neiljrubenking MalwareBytes says IObit stole sigs http://bit.ly/3s88q6 IObit totally denies it http://bit.ly/1qfLsn Who's right? #pcmsec 14 days ago |
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Malwarebytes’ Intellectual Property stolen - Competitor seems to use their database - http://bit.ly/3CcE 17 days ago |
IOBit Steals Malwarebytes’ Intellectual Property [miekiemoes]
Security Bloggers Network —
... research and database from their software. We also demand IOBit be delisted from Download.com due to Terms of Service violations. This is criminal: it is theft, it is fraud, and we will not stand for it.
What can you do to help? If you feel the same way we do about this theft, we encourage you to send an email to hosting services such as Download.com and Majorgeeks.com requesting that all IOBit software be removed.
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IOBit Steals Malwarebytes’ Intellectual Property [miekiemoes]
Security Bloggers Network —
... research and database from their software. We also demand IOBit be delisted from Download.com due to Terms of Service violations. This is criminal: it is theft, it is fraud, and we will not stand for it.
What can you do to help? If you feel the same way we do about this theft, we encourage you to send an email to hosting services such as Download.com and Majorgeeks.com requesting that all IOBit software be removed.
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IObit accused of stealing from Malwarebytes
Computerworld Blogs - Security —
... shortly. A commenter at CNET pointed out something else interesting. The web page for IObit Security 360 claims the software was "featured" at places that have no information about it at all. Sure enough, a search for IObit at Forbes.com, bizjournals.com, reuters.com and hoovers.com came up empty at each site. At this point, I wouldn't touch any software from IObit with a ten foot pole. But, that's just me. NOTE: The forum posting is duplicated on the Malwarebytes blog posting: IOBit Steals Malwarebytes’ Intellectual Property.
Malwarebytes Claims IObit Copied Code
Security Watch —
... "Why would IOBit detect a keygen for our software and refer to it using our database name?" the company wrote in a blog post. "We quickly became suspicious. Either the forum post was fraudulent or IOBit was stealing our database. ...
