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Re:‘Fix My Computer’ Cry Echos on Social Media; Air Force CI... by iforgotpassword on Friday January 28, 2022 @10:26AM (#30115747)
They should switch to Norton to make some crypto money on the side.
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Re:‘Fix My Computer’ Cry Echos on Social Media; Air Force CI... by tanjtanjtanj on Friday January 28, 2022 @12:46PM (#30117933)
The Norton product that provides the services here is made and sold by a different company than the one shipping crypto-mining software.
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Re:‘Fix My Computer’ Cry Echos on Social Media; Air Force CI... by 3np on Friday January 28, 2022 @12:39PM (#30117843)
Wat?
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Re:‘Fix My Computer’ Cry Echos on Social Media; Air Force CI... by nucleardog on Friday January 28, 2022 @01:03PM (#30118192)
Few articles floating around from about a month ago, this is one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29795910

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Re:‘Fix My Computer’ Cry Echos on Social Media; Air Force CI... by 3np on Friday January 28, 2022 @01:55PM (#30118836)
Oh wow. And here I thought they were one of the relatively clean ones among the crowd of McAfee and Avast!. Agreed with the top comment there that the whole industry is reeking. Seems like the only reasonable one is Windows Defender, with the only Linux alternative being ClamAV (non-shady but questionable if it's effective at all for a workstation)
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Re:‘Fix My Computer’ Cry Echos on Social Media; Air Force CI... by unionpivo on Friday January 28, 2022 @04:40PM (#30120739)
It's there mostly for the checkboxes on copliance, but it's not that bad, compared to others.
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