The new version of Norton 360 installs a crypto miner on your PC by default

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Not clickbait. They have launched their own coin. Read more on official site here: FAQ: Norton Crypto

What is Norton Crypto?
Norton Crypto is a feature made available in Norton 360 which you can utilize for mining cryptocurrency when your PC is idle. Currently, Norton Crypto is limited to users with devices that meet the required system requirements.

Are there charges or fee associated with coin mining?
Norton Crypto is included as part of Norton 360 subscriptions. However, there are coin mining fees as well as transaction costs to transfer Ethereum.
The coin mining fee is currently 15% of the crypto allocated to the miner.

They will keep 15% cut too. AV has become the virus lol. Do more reading on reddit here.

A great video on this was posted by @Desmond

Ripperoni. I don't like this timeline any more.

Who really still uses Norton these days though other than enterprise users?

^^Isn't using users resources for mining illegal ? Obviously if no consent given by user.

Norton is expensive compared to better alternatives like kapersky,eset anyway.

Zangetsu said:
^^Isn't using users resources for mining illegal ? Obviously if no consent given by user.

They will force consent by not working even after you purchase at full price

COVID Brain Fog Symptom is real xD

Mental Outlaw made a video about this

Desmond said:
Mental Outlaw made a video about this

Added to the original post. Funny and informative video

Which antivirus to buy then?

aby geek said:
Which antivirus to buy then?

I am currently using ESET, just werks IMO.