Shields Up!: Malwarebytes discovers it’s being ripped off by it’s Chinese rival

November 3rd, 2009 admin

Section: Computers , Security The Malwarebytes Corporation, makers of the excellent anti-malware software of the same name, have discovered that a Chinese rival has been stealing from its database of malware samples and flagging a specific keygen code for the Malwarebytes software using the exact same naming scheme.


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