How Chinese AV company Rising tried to steal a concurrent technology.

[Deleted member 178]

Rising Antivirus, or Rui Xing (瑞星) as Chinese call it, is one of the largest anti-virus software companies in China, with over 500 employees and more than 50 million Chinese home users.

Eastern Micropoint (微点主动防御软件), on the other hand, is a still a start-up, unremarkable except for the 2005 allegations that it released several malware to the internet.

The connection between these two? Yu Bing, former director of Beijing Cyberpolice in charge of internet security (北京市公安局公共信息网络安全监察处). On February 4, 2010, Yu bing was tried by Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court (北京市一中院) on charges of graft amounting to 14 million yuan as well as deliberate framing and persecution of Eastern Micropoint...

Link: http://torisefromashes.blogspot.com/2010/02/chinese-antivirus-giant-rising-bribe.html

and then:

A Chinese court has found a high-up security official guilty of corruption, taking over 14 million yuan (over US $2 million) in bribes from different internet security companies, and sending out anti-virus warnings to boost sales of an anti-virus product.

Link: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2010/12/13/death-chinese-anti-virus-kickback-plot/

 

[AyeAyeCaptain]

Shame on them, this surely is going to impact their business now?

 

[mad056]

Shame on them, this surely is going to impact their business now?

Most likely not.

 

[Deleted member 178]

when you have 50 millions of customers only in you country, i think you don't care so much about repercussions...

 

[AyeAyeCaptain]

iobit suffered a lot when they was naughty, so why not Rising? Then again that country is supressed quite a bit so am sure they'll maybe just carry on regardless.

 

[Account]

One cant place European or western values on Chinese Market Rising / iobit etc play by a different play book, even if Rising were to lose 10 million customer's its no bid deal , with the amount of new users coming on line in china each year,

If your in china its a bribe for the nut and another for the bolt ,
I think the difference between the iobit and Rising will be a lot more western users used iobit that was the big impact on iobit , not sure how many western users use Rising .

 

[Deleted member 178]

One cant place European or western values on Chinese Market Rising / iobit

i agree, im from both cultures, asian and western, in Asia business is first before "fairness".

 

[ocsi]

But, China produce very good security programs (Malware Defender, Qihoo 360, Jiangmin, Kingsoft, etc). Too bad as trying to steal!!!

 

[HeffeD]

One cant place European or western values on Chinese Market Rising / iobit etc play by a different play book,

You can if they are trying to operate in a European or Western market...

They need to understand that what may in fact be common practice in their country, is seen as underhanded and untrustworthy in others. If they expect to do business in other countries, they're going to have to meet those countries expectations.

 

[Account]

Well i would not go so far as to call Kingsoft a good security program Average maybe lol
business first , beat the competition any way u can,

 

[GabiCRX]

Hmm, Rising again, the malware creators, it seems like they can't stay out of trouble !
If they cant face competition they should do something else !

 

[Deleted member 178]

Hmm, Rising again, the malware creators, it seems like they can't stay out of trouble !
If they cant face competition they should do something else !

it is not facing competition it is about stealing technology. Micropoint seems to have developped a good Behavior Blocker technology, and Rising just want it.

 

[moonshine]

Main reasons why I stay away from Chinese Security Companies.
1. They're the ones that are creating the malware that their software detects
2. They always seems to steal technologies from one another
3. Most of these companies doesn't have good tech support with international customers
4. Most of the software that are being made aren't top notch

 

[Deleted member 178]

Main reasons why I stay away from Chinese Security Companies.
1. They're the ones that are creating the malware that their software detects
2. They always seems to steal technologies from one another
3. Most of these companies doesn't have good tech support with international customers
4. Most of the software that are being made aren't top notch

agree, but have some exceptions.

 

[jamescv7]

From no.4 I really agree since most were not top notched and didn't award due to poor performance.