IObit Steals Malwarebytes' Intellectual Property

Malwarebytes has recently uncovered evidence that a company called IObit based in China is stealing and incorporating its proprietary database and intellectual property into their software. Read the full story.



IObit replies with a declaration: "No hard proof shows that IObit stole database of Malwarebytes".


Few days ago, IObit has included a IE ToolBar in the software installation (quickly replaced by a Yahoo Toolbar).



The toolbar was made by Conduit, a well known spyware company. The mistake was done. Corrected, but unethical for a security company. IObit should have known.



There is more: IObit is hosting porn pages content with active link to porn sites:





Promoting security tools with porn pages. This is definitely unethical.

Protection System rogue

Protection System is a fake anti-malware software, clone of CoreGuard Antivirus 2009.



Sunbelt blog reports (thanks to Patrick Jordan) Protection System detects Malwarebytes MBAM installation. The rogue runs MalwareBytes uninstaller to remove the protection.



CoreGuard Antivirus 2009 was also uninstalling MBAM:


The rogues removes the legit AntiMalware to confuse users and protect itself from being detected.

Protection System steal MBAM database version 2551. Of course, if the database is used by the rogue, the engine is not the same and can only use a small part of it to its advantage.

CoreGuard Antivirus 2009

CoreGuard Antivirus is a new fake security scanner (rogue).



Stay away from these sites:
bitcoreguard.net (72.232.187.197)
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guardlab.com (72.232.187.198)
guardav.com (72.232.187.198)
coreguard2009.com (78.46.151.181)
coreguard2009.biz (78.46.151.181)
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coreguardlab2009.biz (95.211.14.161)
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guardlab2009.biz (76.76.103.164)
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BleepingComputer CoreGuard Antivirus 2009 removal guide.
Thanks to MAD