Consider boycotting IOBit Security 360

plodr · Administrator Joined: 12 Apr 2001 Posts: 6111

This is a company out of China who appernetly has stolen the intellectual property of malwarebytes and using it to sell its own security program.

It's a very long thread but you can read about it here in the malwarebytes forum
http://www.malwarebytes.org/forums/index.p...1&st=0

title changed to reflect the actual program involved.

Corrine · Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 21:54 pm Post subject:

Follow-up posted by Marcin today:
ttp://www.malwarebytes.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=29772
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orillia3 · Joined: 19 Jan 2001 Posts: 2915 Location: Canukistan

Corrine wrote:

Follow-up posted by Marcin today:
ttp://www.malwarebytes.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=29772

Your link does not work, http is missing the h

you can delete this post

Corrine · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 10:28 am Post subject:

Oops. Thanks, Orillia3.

http://www.malwarebytes.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=29772
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plodr · Administrator Joined: 12 Apr 2001 Posts: 6111

I'm also watching how this plays out at Major Geeks. One of the site owners there has been talking to both companies. For the moment he has made it impossible to download IOBit Security 360.
Note: this is the only program we are focusing on. IOBit makes other programs.

CNet has a note at the bottom of the download for the IOBit Security 360 which leads to this story
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10389650-245.html

digger · ๑۞๑ Joined: 29 Mar 2001 Posts: 2387

It's questionable whether you can copyright a database. They ought to just periodically release an old copy of their data to anyone who wants to use it. That will remove competitor's incentives to reverse engineer it from their products while allowing everyone to continue to compete on freshness.