Norton 360, which if memory serves has been a stalwart of the preinstall game now installs an opt-in Cryptominer. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/01/norton-360-now-comes-wit...
you might want to correct "crypto" with "cryptocurrency", at least
Possibly crypto, definitely a lot of AV software.
That argument doesn't lead where you want it to go. It's the antivirus companies that are rubbish.
Crypto is a cancer even when users voluntarily participate, but that's a separate discussion. It's incredibly inefficient and I distrust anyone downplaying the severity of fragmented commerce networks that individually use more energy than entire countries with millions of fungible flesh and blood humans.
Yes, on the bastion of healthy software that is...third party antivirus(!?)