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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 i
by kjaftaedi 5y ago
>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.
- perennate 5y ago> (1) does not inform the user or ask for consent > (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/v138388461 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.
- kjaftaedi 5y agoI got the information from the thread linked in the headline. (scroll to their follow up posts) I don't have Norton, so I am unable to test this myself.