At this time we do not who these other competitors are and what was stolen. Malwarebytes` has also stated that they have discovered that IOBit may have stolen definitions from other competitors databases as well. A company makes up a program and two weeks later it appears in another company's program? Seems pretty obvious that they are stealing their definitions. Within two weeks, though, IOBit was flagging this same infection under almost the exact same names. Therefore, the only place this definition should exist is in the Malwarebytes program definitions. This is not a real infection and was made up by the Malwarebytes' development team in order to catch IOBit in the act. To finally confirm that they were indeed stealing their definitions, MBAM created a definition for a fake and nonexistent Rogue program called Rogue.AVCleanSweepPro and created fake and harmless test files to go along with this test. What they discovered was that this was not a unique incident and that there were other definitions that were copied directly from their database as well. This led them to become suspicious and to dig deeper into the IOBit virus definitions. The MBAM staff found it strange that IOBit would detect MBAM keygens and at the same time use the classification that they themselves made up.
#Malwarebytes 3.1.2 license serial#
is the exact same one that Malwarebytes' uses in their virus definitions for various MBAM serial code generators. The scan result is:ĭ.A, File, G:\Nothing Much\Anti-Spyware\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware v1.39\Key_Generator.exe, 9-30501 It started with the MBAM team discovering a forum thread at the IOBit forum with a user questioning the scan results from their new Security 360 product. As IOBit has been marketing their new security product strongly lately, this accusation could make their Security 360 product short lived. The Malwarebytes', or MBAM, team announced todaythat IOBit, a software developer located in China, has been purposely stealing their malware definitions and incorporating it into their Security 360 product.