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by kjaftaedi
1620 days ago
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>Also, it's not like they maliciously inserted this thing to mine crypto for Norton itself. No, but it is still malicious in the sense that it: (1) does not inform the user or ask for consent (2) seemingly does not offer an option to disable it While I want to apply Occam's razor here, you'd have to assume all of the people that worked on this were negligent or unqualified... when sadly the more likely scenario is that these decisions were most likely intentional. |
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> (2) seemingly does not offer an option to disable it
Where do you see this? As far as I can tell, it is off by default, and the user must explicitly enable it (consent) to use the miner.
See e.g. https://support.norton.com/sp/en/us/home/current/solutions/v... which mentions a License and Services Agreement that must be accepted before the miner can be used at all, and clearly says the mining status can be toggled between Active and Paused.