You can disable this, but there is a small nuance.
It became known that since January of this year, cryptominers have become part of the antivirus programs Norton 360 and Avira. Recall that until now, Norton 360 already offered this option, but only to a limited number of users.
Let’s make a little clarity for everyone’s understanding. Both antiviruses offer the user to mine Ethereum using the power of the computer. For these purposes, a PC that meets the necessary system requirements will fit, in the list of which there is a video card from AMD or NVIDIA with a preinstalled amount of memory of at least 6 GB.
In the case of Norton 360, the program takes 15% of the commission from all income that users receive from mining (which is much higher than the declared shares of mining pool operators). It is still unknown how things are with Avira’s commission.
Innovations for the two named antivirus programs are expected caused a flurry criticism of developers. Users are not satisfied with the fact that the cryptocurrency miner is installed in both cases by default and without warning. So, the journalists of the publication The Verge confirmed that Norton 360 does not notify the user in any way about the installation of the special utility NCrypt.exe.
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After installing the update, Avira antivirus (like Norton 360) does not turn on by default, users must activate this function on their own. The company NortonLifeLock (which owns both antiviruses) reported that those who wish can still delete the NCrypt.exe file, but for this they will have to disable the function of protection against unauthorized access.