Re:Norton is installing a Cryptocurrency miner called Norton...
by perennate on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @05:15PM
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> (1) does not inform the user or ask for consent
> (2) seemingly does not offer an option to disable it
Where do you see this? As far as I can tell, it is off by default, and the user must explicitly enable it (consent) to use the miner.
See e.g. https://support.norton.com/sp/en/us/home/current/solutions/v... which mentions a License and Services Agreement that must be accepted before the miner can be used at all, and clearly says the mining status can be toggled between Active and Paused.
No, but it is still malicious in the sense that it:
(1) does not inform the user or ask for consent
(2) seemingly does not offer an option to disable it
While I want to apply Occam's razor here, you'd have to assume all of the people that worked on this were negligent or unqualified... when sadly the more likely scenario is that these decisions were most likely intentional.