“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.”
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.
Class action lawsuit anyone?
Antivirus have been dead for a while, right? Windows defender has gotten good and antivirus software always had been terrible
500M Avira Antivirus Users Introduced to Cryptomining: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/01/500m-avira-antivirus-users-introduced-to-cryptomining/
Avira was acquired by Tempe, Ariz.-based NortonLifeLock Inc., the same company that now owns Norton 360
Next: Microsoft Windows 11 Comes With a Cryptominer - Microsoft takes 95% cut from mining ETH. :D
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WTF :D
The only AV you should even use is Malwarebytes for the occasional on demand scans (because Windows Defender is useless) and learn common sense and good basic practices to make exploitations impossible to happen in the first place.
Antivirus industry has a lot of bad actors at this point. Even Avira fell to the jaws of death.
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