Daughter Company Norton (Avira Antivirus) also contains cryptominer
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JamesSneed
I am so over these companies.
kill007
Norton: "Hackers can't mine crypto if we're already mining it."
#ModernSolutions
mbk1969
Obviously they were forced to do it...
fry178
Not surprised.
Anyone on sites like this/techs etc, should know better anyway.
have seen up to 10K of (malware) infections found by free stuff, while Norton (tech version) says "clean"..
DarkQuark
I can promise you where this is going. While it is optional now to have it on I think in the near future if you choose to use these products for "free" this will be force enabled.
Alessio1989
Antivirus and related software are scam and fraud, nothing new here.
Airbud
So this antivirus is a virus and you have to buy it?
hahahahaha!
Horus-Anhur
Norton and Avira:
We've infected your PC, so you don't have to.
Devid
This is such a nice gesture of Avira! o_O
This PC hardware related energy sucking mining should be banned from the universe to be honest...
Truder
Maybe someone at NortonLifeLock really likes the film "The Dark Knight" and decided to put a quote from the film into practice?
"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain" - Harvey Dent
I did find their firewall software to be very useful back in the day of dial-up internet and their Norton Ghost software has been useful for quite a few people but they've really fallen so low now....
DarkQuark
Folks need to understand a corporation in general has no morality. Its motivations are to make profit. The only real tethers to common sense for a big corp is the consumer vote. And when they get so big they choke out competition, even that erodes which is how we end up with companies pushing products their consumers do not really want. It becomes a case of the tail wagging the dog.
I find smaller companies and independents can still be passionate about a good product and still have a morality. I personally try to stick with those when possible but that is often difficult.
reix2x
i have being telling people to uninstall anti virus since 2008, you just need to know what you download and from where.. but i guess every person choose their favorite poison. The saddest part is that probably there are laptops with this crap preinstalled
Truder
James Frazer
It's been a number of years since I looked in to Antivirus and Malware software... So what do people recommend these days, I just want to see if things have changed much.
Alessio1989
rflair
Moderator
Windows Defender looks better and better everyday.
TheDeeGee
JamesSneed
Alessio1989
MegaFalloutFan
I dont see a problem here, it says TURN OFF in big text, that enough.