2022-01-18T12:22:51+00:00 Zend_Feed_Writer https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/2039 AUGW info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ 2022-01-10T20:34:35+00:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/2039#10085 Eleanor Spenceley info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ Now they are coming with cryptomining. Cryptomining is already a horrible hugh waste of energy and these numpties are making it as well as AV software a whole lot worse. 2022-01-11T11:41:19+00:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/2039#10086 Eric Jervis info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ Hmm, very nasty. About as trustworthy as Savij Jabid.... 2022-01-12T17:24:30+00:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/2039#10088 Tony Still info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ Wow! Free money! Let's go! I wonder if there could be a catch. I think this is an argument against Norton rather than AV in general. I don't run AV but I wouldn't use this as an argument against them in general. However, I wouldn't go with Norton because of bad experiences years ago: my wife's first OS X Mac was an iBook, with both MS Office and Norton, and it was very unstable. I rebuilt it twice from scratch with no improvement, then did it again but reinstalled things one at a time, waiting a few days each time to see if I could identify the culprit. All was perfect when only Norton was left to reinstall - so I didn't. Not proof but certainly a smoking gun. 2022-01-18T12:22:51+00:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/2039#10093 Eleanor Spenceley info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ This is an argument of AV companies maybe becoming happy to add extra cruft to an already crufty solution. As the sellers are squeezed in a saturated market while companies like Apple and Microsoft improve their own OS security directly they will find adding 'other features' such as crypto a good idea (to their bottom line). I also got caught by Norton's kernel extension issue many years ago, it's not great their software was adding kernel extensions in the first place and is itself a possible vector to gain access to your Mac.