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When I was at Malwarebytes we had concerns that IOBit was stealing our database and passing it off on their own. While we had a lot of obvious proof, we felt it
by tedivm 1y ago
When I was at Malwarebytes we had concerns that IOBit was stealing our database and passing it off on their own. While we had a lot of obvious proof, we felt it wasn't enough for the average person to understand.
To get real proof we created a new program that only existed on a single machine, and then added a signature for that application. This way there could be no claim that they independently added something to their database, as the program was not malware and literally impossible to actually find in the wild. Once they added it to their database we made a blog post and the issue got a lot of attention.
https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/29681-iobit-steals-malwarebytes-intellectual-property/ https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/29681-iobit-steals-mal...
- e9 1y agoI was learning OS stuff and made a toy virus for myself back in 1999 and I thought it would be cool if antivirus officially recognized it so I sent a copy to antivirus company(Dr.Web. I think it was called?) and to my surprise now all antivirus databases have it and someone even has gif recording of machine booting up with it… so clearly they must be sharing not just db but also the executables etc
- tedivm 1y agoThere are sharing programs between companies, yes, but that isn't what we're talking about here.
- belter 1y ago> When I was at Malwarebytes I hope you were not the one that decided to uninstall the product, you need to download a support utility... :-)