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| Thread ID: 150401 | 2022-01-06 21:15:00 | Norton 360 Now Comes With a Cryptominer | 1101 (13337) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1483423 | 2022-01-06 21:15:00 | "Norton 360 Now Comes With a Cryptominer " krebsonsecurity.com "Norton 360, one of the most popular antivirus products on the market today, has installed a cryptocurrency mining program on its customers’ computers. Norton’s parent firm says the cloud-based service that activates the program and allows customers to profit from the scheme — in which the company keeps 15 percent of any currencies mined — is “opt-in,” meaning users have to agree to enable it. But many Norton users complain the mining program is difficult to remove," My customers often ask me why I (and other techs ) dont like Norton AV . My god . A company that now bundles cryptomining into their products . How low can you get. Thats the sort of CRAP that AV products should be detecting and removing. The mind boggles , how can any company be so stupid . Im stunned that they did this . And just when I thought their AV was getting usable. |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1483424 | 2022-01-06 21:42:00 | I don't think I've ever thought that Norton AV is usable in any way, shape or form......lol! LL |
lakewoodlady (103) | ||
| 1483425 | 2022-01-07 04:47:00 | The mind boggles , how can any company be so stupid . Im stunned that they did this .. I don't know, Lenovo bundled spyware on their laptops.... www.itpro.co.uk |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1483426 | 2022-01-07 04:54:00 | I don't think I've ever thought that Norton AV is usable in any way, shape or form......lol! LL It used to be a very good product. A long long time ago . Ive given up arguing with customers about Norton, so many still think its a good product and took it personally when I recommended removing it. |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1483427 | 2022-01-07 07:24:00 | "Norton 360, one of the most popular antivirus products on the market today, has installed a cryptocurrency mining program on its customers’ computers. Norton’s parent firm says the cloud-based service that activates the program and allows customers to profit from the scheme — in which the company keeps 15 percent of any currencies mined — is “opt-in,” meaning users have to agree to enable it. But many Norton users complain the mining program is difficult to remove," My god . A company that now bundles cryptomining into their products . How low can you get. Thats the sort of CRAP that AV products should be detecting and removing. HAHAHA!! :D :D :D :D That's the funniest thing I've read all week. I've always known Norton AV to slow computers to a crawl... guess now we know why! |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1483428 | 2022-01-09 20:47:00 | and avast now also doing the same ....... because Norton bought Avast krebsonsecurity.com "Avira antivirus — which has built a base of 500 million users worldwide largely by making the product free — was recently bought by the same company that owns Norton 360 and is introducing its customers to a service called Avira Crypto." |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1483429 | 2022-01-09 20:51:00 | Geez, what's left in free? Yay for NOD I guess, glad I don't need this stuff anymore | piroska (17583) | ||
| 1483430 | 2022-01-09 20:55:00 | and avast now also doing the same ....... because Norton bought Avast krebsonsecurity.com "Avira antivirus — which has built a base of 500 million users worldwide largely by making the product free — was recently bought by the same company that owns Norton 360 and is introducing its customers to a service called Avira Crypto." Avast! ≠ Avira.... |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1483431 | 2022-01-09 20:56:00 | Geez, what's left in free? Yay for NOD I guess, glad I don't need this stuff anymore Comodo? ClamAV with Immunet has had a cloud scanning and on-access feature in Windows for a while now. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1483432 | 2022-01-10 18:49:00 | Looks like Avira is also going down this path as well www.ghacks.net Edit- See it has already been mentioned above |
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