“Norton is pretty much amplifying energy consumption worldwide, costing their customers more in electricity use than the customer makes on the mining, yet allowing Norton to make a ton of profit,” tweeted security researcher Chris Vickery. “It’s disgusting, gross, and brand-suicide.”

  • onlooker
    7·
    3 years ago

    Norton 360, one of the most popular antivirus products on the market today […]

    For real? Even when I was still on Windows way back when, everyone I knew was avoiding Norton like the plague.

    And just lol @ installing a crypto miner and taking a comission.

  • sexy_peach@feddit.de
    3·
    3 years ago

    Antivirus have been dead for a while, right? Windows defender has gotten good and antivirus software always had been terrible