NortonLifeLock, the company that offers the consumer products Broadcom didn’t want when it bought Symantec, has started to offer Ethereum mining as a feature of its Norton 360 security suite.
The antivirus maker's pitch for the product rests on the argument that casual cryptocurrency miners can't or don’t take security seriously – perhaps by running iffy code that might just steal their money – and so here's a trusted tool to safely craft coins for them.
“For years, many coinminers have had to take risks in their quest for cryptocurrency, disabling their security in order to run coinmining and allowing unvetted code on their machines that could be skimming from their earnings or even planting ransomware,” NortonLifeLock asserted this week.
Worse still, NortonLifeLock claimed, miners will likely store their digita ..
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