The odds that your computer will make “a coin” is a near fractional of nothing. What was it the FBI did with a “Cold cloud wallet” just the other day, wasen’t to fish out a few thousand bit coins worth a hundrred million or so.Īlso “Ethereum” the crypto-flip of exchange con artists… Only you have access to the wallet.””Īnd found myself rolling around on the floor making strange noises wirh tears of mirth flowing out of my eyes… “The key to the wallet is encrypted and stored securely in the cloud. Sorry I would have said this earlier, but on reading the Krebs article I got to,

I wouldn’t think that Norton would start turning this on by default, but I also would not have thought a few days ago that an AV product would stealth install a crypto-miner.Īll considered I feel the Opt-In statement is a very disingenuous.

It’s already there, the next time it automatically contacts Norton for virus definition updates it could get a message to just turn on the miner for all compatible system. The fact that it’s installed without consent means that Norton has the option in the future to move from a Opt-In stance to an Opt-Out stance without notifying users, or even requiring any visible change to the user. It’s also doing hardware profiling for marketing, I’d bet there is a clause burred in the EULA about this, but it really moves it out of Opt-In territory for me.

This is muddied a little when the feature is baked into a larger program, but in this case it’s standalone and does not need to be installed at all before the user has opted in. A true Opt-In feature would not be installed at all unless it was asked for. I feel like calling this Opt-In is only half right.

Norton total all round security