IOBit Steals Malwarebytes' Intellectual Property - Malwarebytes Forum

WOW! Big news.

RubbeR DuckY:

During the course of our investigation, we uncovered additional evidence that IOBit may have stolen the proprietary databases of other security vendors as well. We are in the process of contacting these vendors.

Look's like MBAM may not be the only one affected. Galadriel over at Bleeping has also pointed out similarities between IObit's Advanced SystemCare 3 Security Analyzer and Trend Micro's HijackThis. 

This news may very well damage IObit's reputation beyond repair. I'm sure all eyes will now be on IObit, awaiting an official response to these accusations.

Red Dawn:

similarities between IObit's Advanced SystemCare 3 Security Analyzer and Trend Micro's HijackThis. 

IOBit’s Denial of Theft Unconvincing
http://www.malwarebytes.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=29772

IOBit has not featured prominently as a recommended program in this forum. (I had never heard of it).

Nonetheless I applaud the dissemination of this information here and elsewhere. I took the opportunity to rate IOBit.com using WOT, and am pleased to see it has fallen from a green rating to an amber. The more folks using WOT that do this, the better warned all will be.

IOBit has been accused by Malwarebytes of illegally using their intellectual property without permission. Additionally, both WOT and SiteAdvisor have flagged IOBit’s site.

A thread in the IOBit’s forum responded to the accusations from MalwareBytes.  It is noteworthy that several responses from users raising specific questions about IOBit’s response and finding it unsatisfactory were deleted and the thread was closed.  The bottom line from IOBit was:“No hard proof shows that IObit stole database of Malwarebytes.”

At least until the issues of possible database theft and spyware packaging is resolved, I recommend against the use of IOBit products.