Reply to post: Re: Parasitic

Avira also mines imaginary internet money on customers' PCs

Rob Daglish

Re: Parasitic

Agreed, except I'd add 0) Why the hell do the AV vendors feel the need to jump under this particular bandwagon, and wouldn't it be better to just not get involved at all?

Unless... yes, maybe they decide if you've been infected by a reduced number of cycles available to their crypto (corrupto?) mining operation!

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