This is actually really cool. At least I think so.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Norton hasn’t made anything worth paying for since Peter Norton left in search of greener pastures.
It has always been hard to fully uninstall Norton to begin with. Now you are making them money using your electricity.