Security nuisance: Norton 360 integrates crypto miners
As the technology magazine T3N reports, security software provider Nortonlifelock has built a crypto miner into its Norton 360 security program. Users can volunteer to mine and share the profit with Nortonlifelock. However, users complain in the Norton forum about a forced installation. Security software should actually protect against crypto miners. Nortonlifelock now wants to turn it into an officially legal business. Norton already activated a crypto mining module for a small group of users in the summer of 2021. The users mine Ethereum with their computer and, if successful, give it to Nortonlifelock. The user should then issue a credit ...