[mayank]

An interesting aspect that I've seen missing from discussions on this is the dark growth pattern at play here.

All across the world, there are millions of languishing enterprise/educational fleets (generally Windows) administered by a single or a few "IT folks". In my experience, these people are often the only technologically aware people in the organization. This is Norton cutting them in on the grift. Install acclaimed "Norton Antivirus", which is likely already a line item on procurements, mine crypto on the sly for yourself on idle fleets at night, and give Norton a slice of the pie while you're at it.

Nobody's likely going to look twice at Norton running on a machine, we've already collectively conditioned ourselves to think of antivirus software as "slowing the machine down", and as a bonus: unless the next person in is as up to speed as your are, your grift can keep running long after you've moved on.