Norton 360 Now Comes with a Cryptominer
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Norton 360 Now Comes with a Cryptominer
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#2It wasn’t a big thing when it was disabled by default and now it is because the default flipped?! I think this is a big issue regardless - it’s like selling a bike rack with every new car. It doesn’t seem right and enforces the wrong behavior.
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#3It wasn’t a big thing when it was disabled by default and now it is because the default flipped?! I think this is a big issue regardless - it’s like selling a bike rack with every new car. It doesn’t seem right and enforces the wrong behavior.
It is disabled by default
> Norton Crypto is an opt-in feature only and is not enabled without user permission
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#4Also discussed a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29795910
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#5I’m sorry but this is the funniest thing ever. Wasn’t it just a few years ago we were joking that AV software is the virus? How far have we come.
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#6This was already discussed on HN 7 months ago [0]. I'll repeat what I said about it last time:
It's a mistake to focus on Norton in this context. The "correct" way of reading of this headline should be something like "reputable company puts an Ethereum wallet and mining software in the hands of millions of users".
Now imagine if tomorrow Microsoft decided to add a crypto wallet and mining tools to Windows, or Google to Chrome.
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#7Well, it's not like they have a good reputation to maintain.
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#8I wonder if anybody has estimations of the contribution of anti-virus software to global warming. They run on almost all desktop computers, are generally large and bloated applications that consume tons of cpu for their continuous scans, I would not be too surprised if was far from negligible.
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#9It wasn’t a big thing when it was disabled by default and now it is because the default flipped?! I think this is a big issue regardless - it’s like selling a bike rack with every new car. It doesn’t seem right and enforces the wrong behavior.
More precisely, it's like selling a crypto miner with every new car. The use case overlap with a piece of security software is close to zero.
Re: Norton 360 Now Comes with a Cryptominer
#10This was already discussed on HN 7 months ago [0]. I'll repeat what I said about it last time: It's a mistake to focus on Norton in this context. The "correct" way of reading of this headline should be something like "reputable company puts an Ethereum wallet and mining software in the hands of millions of users". Now imagine if tomorrow Microsoft decided to add a crypto wallet and mining tools to Windows, or Google…
Honestly, I feel like the reaction would be similar.