Batu69 Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 CLEARWATER, FL, October 7, 2016 − Enigma Software Group USA, LLC (ESG) filed a complaint in federal court in New York today against competing anti-malware provider Malwarebytes Inc. The complaint, available here, alleges false advertising, unfair competition, and tortious interference with contractual relations. The complaint alleges that Malwarebytes this week began improperly detecting and reporting to consumers that ESG's anti-malware product SpyHunter® and ESG's registry cleaner product RegHunter® were Potentially Unwanted Programs. ESG alleges that Malwarebytes did so for anticompetitive motives, including to profit by unfairly diverting customers away from SpyHunter to Malwarebytes products and to attempt to apply pressure on ESG in the pending litigation ESG filed against Bleeping Computer, which is believed to be one of Malwarebytes largest affiliates. To ESG's knowledge, no other major anti-malware product flags SpyHunter® or RegHunter® as Potentially Unwanted Programs. ESG asserts in its complaint that Malwarebytes is materially misleading consumers by asserting that SpyHunter® and RegHunter® are malicious and a threat, and ESG asserts that this harms consumers by inducing them to buy Malwarebytes products and avoid ESG products under false pretenses. One effect of Malwarebytes detection and reporting of SpyHunter® and RegHunter® as Potentially Unwanted Programs is that ESG customers who have paid for these products may be blocked by Malwarebytes from installing and using them. Ryan Gerding, spokesman for ESG, said of the matter, "ESG filed suit against Malwarebytes to stop its blatantly unlawful and anticompetitive behavior. Over its eight year history, Malwarebytes has never previously flagged SpyHunter® or RegHunter®, and the only thing that is different today is that ESG has a lawsuit pending against Bleeping Computer, a Malwarebytes affiliate. Incidentally, Malwarebytes and/or its CEO has provided money to Bleeping Computer to fight that lawsuit." Mr. Gerding continued, "Our customers and prospective customers deserve to know that SpyHunter® and RegHunter® are still the outstanding products they have come to expect. ESG customers who experience any difficulties as a result of Malwarebytes should visit ESG's Customer Support Center and notify ESG of the problem." About Enigma Software Group USA, LLC Enigma Software Group USA, LLC is a privately held international systems integrator and developer of PC security software, with offices in the United States and the European Union. The company's specialties are the development of PC security software, online security analysis, adaptive threat assessment, and detection of PC security threats, as well as malware custom fixes for its millions of subscribers worldwide. ESG is best known for SpyHunter®, its anti-malware software product and service. Article source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pc71520 Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 On 11/10/2016 at 4:33 PM, Batu69 said: Enigma Software Group has a lawsuit pending against Bleeping Computer, a Malwarebytes affiliate. Never Trusted Enigma! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luisam Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 I tried Spy Hunter and found it a really unwanted so uninstalled it before it could provoke some major damages in my computer. Enigma has been very agressive about criticism against this product, even menacing forums to remove posts where members complained against it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikie Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 Well maybe next they'll sue AdGuard and WebOfTrust guys too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
software182 Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 "Our customers and prospective customers deserve to know that SpyHunter® and RegHunter® are still the outstanding products..." 1. Are they drunk or smoke weed too much ? 2. What ? Do they really have customer/s ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dim2lite Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 hahaha maybe a little bit of both Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pc71520 Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 Better stay away from whatever the Enigma Software Group offers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
straycat19 Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 First they sued Bleepingcomputer because of a review a user posted, and now Malwarebytes. Nsane better be careful or they will be sued next for the honest reviews (?) posted here. Since they couldn't sell their crappy software they had to go another direction to create a revenue stream. Suing people is the thing to do in this day and age. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
straycat19 Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 2 hours ago, Crazycanuk said: MBAM jumped all over driver booster for me today,rendering the program unusable. Every single file was flagged as PUP. Funny thing is Malwarebytes was set to warn about PUP's and not to treat as malware That's weird. Can you supply the program and update version and dates, and whether it is paid, free, or cracked? Interested in taking a look at it but need to know what you were running so I can test it against driver booster. Which version of driver booster, also, please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 5 hours ago, Crazycanuk said: MBAM jumped all over driver booster for me today,rendering the program unusable. Every single file was flagged as PUP. Funny thing is Malwarebytes was set to warn about PUP's and not to treat as malware LOL , they dont like IObit: noways IObit: was caught ripping off malwarebytes databasres before for there IObit Malware Fighter. Just like they dont like CRD for cracking there software and flag the word keygen . I told everyone all the better pup defection would do is cause more false positives. Now there being sued over false positives . I got better sense than to install program installers 3rd party PUP I dont need no Anti malware deciding what i can install and can't I dont need 15 realtimes going , slowing me down and giving me false positives I just use NOD32 in realtime with PUP detection turned off i when i download something I scan it on VT .. When I'm on Linux I never use Anti malware noway I just beef up my browser security and I never get infected .. As far as Driver updaters there safe as long you have a way too restore if you were to have a conflict . Once you get you're system drivers updated when you clean install windows best to only update you're drivers if you have some kind of issues. If it's not broke dont fix it because sooner or latter you will break it by fixing stuff that's not broke This happen to me on Windows 10, I got a bad driver i could not boot into windows no more so after a few cold restarts system repair came up and i done a system restore to before i updated any drivers and everything was fine ..So i'm not fooling with Drivers no more tell RS2 becomes final . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dMog Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 it may be their business model to offer a semi-ambiguous software product...then sue others to make their profit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pc71520 Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 23 hours ago, straycat19 said: Nsane better be careful or they will be sued next for the honest reviews (?) posted here. Yeah. Better be careful... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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