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tedivm on Aug 3, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: I found an easter egg from 1977

When I was at Malwarebytes we would seed our engine with "malware" that was just programs we created on an airgapped machine so we could see when other companies were just blatantly copying us.

We actually discovered that one Chinese company was- https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/29681-iobit-steals-mal...

zerr on Aug 3, 2019 [–]

Interesting, how did Malwarebytes started (the business), how did they aqcuaire the database initially?

tedivm on Aug 4, 2019 | [–]

It was originally started on a web forum by a few people making it as a hobby, but it got popular quickly. The database was all built in house.

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