Remember Norton 360's bundled cryptominer? Irritated folk realise Ethereum crafter is tricky to delete.
AVIRA VS AVAST 2016 REDDIT SOFTWARE
A cynic could be forgiven for pointing out that embedding code into an immutable blockchain is a bad plan: all software has bugs, but if it's read-only, you can't fix them when you find them. To fix the hole, Ethereum's developers had to fork their own software. Unsurprisingly, by June, an attacker exploited a vulnerability in the org and it lost a third of its capital: $50m. It was the basis of distributed venture-capital fund "The DAO", founded at the end of April 2016 under the slogan: "To blaze a new path in business organization for the betterment of its members, existing simultaneously nowhere and everywhere and operating solely with the steadfast iron will of unstoppable code."
AVIRA VS AVAST 2016 REDDIT WINDOWS
Moves like these are signs of the continuing consolidation in the antivirus market, since Microsoft bought GeCAD and Giant, started offering its own freeware antivirus for Windows XP, Vista and 7, then bundled it, to the ire of other antivirus vendors.īoth Norton360 and Avira mine Ethereum, a cryptocurrency whose chief difference from Bitcoin is that it allows you to embed code into its blockchain. (Just in case that page might mysteriously vanish from Avast's website, we've archived it for your convenience.)Īmusingly, if Avast should start grassing up its sister products, there is precedent for that: at one point Avira flagged up itself as malware. NortonLifeLock is what's left of Symantec after it spun off Veritas and then got bought by Broadcom.Īs NortonLifeLock also bought Avast last year, it will be interesting to see if its owner's new-found fondness for imaginary internet money will soften Avast's strong anti-cryptocurrency-mining stance. Perhaps we shouldn't be too surprised, as the same company, NortonLifeLock, owns both brands.
Many Reg readers probably won't have user fleets running on the legacy AV, however, as highlighted by security researcher Brian Krebs earlier today, the feature was added to Avira's product set late last year, just days after Norton360 started to hit the headlines for doing the same. Avira's stand at the CEBIT expo in Hanover, Germany, back in 2011
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