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Norton 360 Now Comes With a Cryptominer – Krebs on Security (krebsonsecurity.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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“Norton is pretty much amplifying energy consumption worldwide, costing their customers more in electricity use than the customer makes on the mining, yet allowing Norton to make a ton of profit,” tweeted security researcher Chris Vickery. “It’s disgusting, gross, and brand-suicide.”

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago

The only AV you should even use is Malwarebytes for the occasional on demand scans (because Windows Defender is useless) and learn common sense and good basic practices to make exploitations impossible to happen in the first place.

Antivirus industry has a lot of bad actors at this point. Even Avira fell to the jaws of death.