Have feeling they will remove it sooner or later. When they wake up to the reality that it will damage their brand far more than mining can compensate from.
@Hilbert Hagedoorn
Maybe a little article on how to remove all traces of Norton from ones PC?
Download and run the Norton Remove and Reinstall tool for Windows
This removal tool they make is really good as long as you click advanced options and remove only which they don't want you to do so they obscure it.
Guess Norton has a few million checks to mail out to the users'; that would also include the interest accrued on said money also. Wonder how many improperly maintained desktops/laptops got overheated and damaged by this. Norton has opened the floodgates this time. The Anti-Trust people are going to eat Norton alive. This is going to get real good once it hits the nightly news.
disgusting behaviour from a fraudulent company with a scam product.. oh wait, there is nothing new here, they needed just more ways to slow down modern CPUs
So the anti-virus is installing a virus.
What a time to be alive!
Venix:
So norton was the virus all along 😛
I have always said that Norton (as well as McAffee, Avast, and AVG) were worse than the average virus, because they do everything malware does:
Hog a lot of I/O, disk space, network bandwidth, RAM, and CPU power
Have annoying pop-ups that prevent you from getting things done
Said pop-ups ask you for money
They leave behind a nasty trail of files and registry entries
Removing them sometimes causes more things to not work
They collect your data
They don't actually remove viruses.
And probably other things that aren't coming to mind. They're a total scam and the only people who still buy them are the same sorts of people who said Intel Macs were better at graphic design or that you should discharge your battery to 0% before charging it again. Norton back in the 90s actually did something. As far as I'm concerned, they've been a problem for well over a decade.
The worst point about this is when this Crypto miner is enabled, even when it's not active, then you'll suffer from a very high GPU usage ins the "dwm" process (which will crippler your PC literally). This caused me to reinstall Window once since I didn't know the cause and luckily I figured out the reason before I do another reinstall.
Way to go Norton! At least have the decency to be transparent about what you're doing with the poor-Norton-user computers.
But who else is doing this crap , I feel sorry for people who have no ideal what's happening here, we as Gurus have a duty to spread the word !
Razer was installing a Monero miner with its drivers a few years ago, which allowed you to mine for Razer HW (the currency was valid for only a year and it took years to mine enough for the simplest mice). They backtracked after the backlash. More jumped on the Monero bandwagon back in 2017/2018 with mining in the background via your browser.
I don't know if the latter is still a thing.
Sadly greed took over in many markets. Software became sub based. Apparently not enough, so lets add ads, mining, NFT's as well. Not profiting the consumer of course. Even Samsung wants to implement NFT somethings in their TV's as well. I wouldn't be surprised if they mined as well in the background. Or another example Android TV / Nvidia Shield / Chromecast w GTV (which I have) with all of them having the home screen for 3/4 filled with ads. My brother has a TV with Android TV and an Nvidia Shield...... both have the same home screen and the same ads (pushed by Google). Even my Philips TV with Saphi platform thought it was a good idea to implement ads for "better TV's" from them (which some remains on screen, only to be removed when power cycle).
Disgusting world we live in.
OK, I'm with you guys on this.
However, if it was possible to use an app to mine in the background with user settings, e.g. 5% PC resources, then, I wouldn't have a problem with it as long as I was in control that is. 5% sipping in the background potentially making some coin...
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OK, I'm with you guys on this.
However, if it was possible to use an app to mine in the background with user settings, e.g. 5% PC resources, then, I wouldn't have a problem with it as long as I was in control that is. 5% sipping in the background potentially making some coin...
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Do you realise NCrypt.exe process in the background isn't mining coins for you, Norton is the only one who's making a profit from this and you're just wasting resources on your side.
https://twitter.com/Norton/status/1475481654797996033 :D 😱:p:D
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