Posted on 01/11/2022 5:23:29 AM PST by ShadowAce
This is actually really cool. At least I think so.
Same here. If I had a spare system I’d look into that
I know some people who go to to their office not because they want to work but they use the office wifi to mine crypto lol
Until Norton decides to turn it on remotely and use your machine for their purposes.
I’m still trying to figure out what “work” your computer does to “earn” this phantom “currency.”
I was offered this months ago, but it didn’t look worthwhile, after accounting for the impact on my electric bill.
Right—it usually costs more in electricity than you get out of it
This is a FOOLS ERRAND for most. Most could never actually earn money given the hashing rate of their GPU and the kwh rate they pay.
“Same here. If I had a spare system I’d look into that”
You can do it WITHOUT Norton...
With that said, I caught the Discord Chat app cryptojacking my system and had to reinstall my whole OS to rid myself of it. Here is the problem, you are willingly opening a back door to Norton.
“Until Norton decides to turn it on remotely and use your machine for their purposes.”
Exactly, you are handing them control of your machine. I do not miss needing services like Norton one bit since going to Linux. :)
Norton IS a virus. I hate those people. You can’t get heir bloated crap off your machine. The same with McAfee pushing their spam every 20 minutes.
Bundling crypto mining software with what is supposed to be anti-virus software, then not being transparent about it is poor PR. It looks shady and from a software perspective it is poor functionally to bundle disparate functions.
Serious question:
I have been mining with Easy Miner, but it just doesn’t seem efficient.
Any recommendations on more efficient mining programs?
(And I have goog’d for that info - nothing but spam gets returned)
The real sneaks will be the IT guys who convince a whole company to switch to Norton, enable this feature, then direct the Ethereum to their own wallets.
Probably they’ll get away with it too.
I don’t mine crypto. Sorry.
anti virus software is difficult to remove. I had a tough time uninstalling mcafee.
That is one of the main reasons I stay away from Microsoft, Apple, and most of the applications in their respective ecosystems.
As others have pointed out, this crypto currency mining thing is probably a net loss. As I understand it to actually make money you need relatively cheap electricity (and cooling), or someone else (work) paying for it and relatively new, high-end or powerful graphics cards to make any kind of reasonable progress. Even at that I don't think there's much return on the investment unless/until you scale up to dozens or hundreds of systems. Some mining "centers" apparently have tens of thousands of systems - rivaling the computing power of a large scale data center.
I recently bought a brand new Dell laptop. It came with Windows on it. I booted it up into windows once just to ensure the hardware wasn't DOA. Then within 30 min of unboxing it I had wiped it's SSD and installed Manjaro on it. I'm using it now to type this.
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