The web page for IObit Security 360 claims the software was 'featured' at places that have no information about it at all. The website rating will probably fall shortly.Ī commenter at CNET pointed out something else interesting. WOT, however, does not have a central ruler, their ratings come from their customers, many of whom have started commenting on the ethical issues involving IObit. Web of Trust (WOT) currently rates the IObit website positively. Here's hoping that CNET, Majorgeeks and other software repositories remove IObit Security 360 from their systems. Ironically, they gave Malwarebytes Anti-Malware only 4.5 stars. Over at, CNET editors gave IObit Security 360 version 1.10 five stars out of five. We are in the process of contacting these vendors.' 'During the course of our investigation, we uncovered additional evidence that IOBit may have stolen the proprietary databases of other security vendors as well. Kleczynski concludes his forum posting with: You can see this in a screen shot posted by Malwarebytes. Lo and behold, IObit Security 360 also detects it as malware, even using the same phony 'Don't.' name. I also scanned it with MBAM and, as shown below, it was flagged it as Don't.

I downloaded dummy.exe and scanned it at VirusTotal which gave it a clean bill of health.

Within two weeks IOBit was detecting these fake files under almost exactly these fake names.'Īs further proof Malwarebytes offers a safe, non-malicious executable program, dummy.exe, that was tweaked to match a signature in their database. We even manufactured fake files to match the fake definitions. This 'malware' does not actually exist: we made it up. Again quoting Kleczynski: 'The final confirmation of IOBit's theft occurred when we added fake definitions to our database for a fake rogue application. These were not statements we made lightly.' 'We conducted this investigation thoroughly over a period of weeks until we were 100% sure of everything we wrote above.

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