<story><title>Norton 360 Now Comes with a Cryptominer</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/01/norton-360-now-comes-with-a-cryptominer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hules</author><text>I wonder if anybody has estimations of the contribution of anti-virus software to global warming. They run on almost all desktop computers, are generally large and bloated applications that consume tons of cpu for their continuous scans, I would not be too surprised if was far from negligible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slg</author><text>To be fair, they also are responsible for some reduction in carbon output. I have seen people just get a new machine if their computer gets too compromised with viruses so any level of virus protection will end up keeping computers out of landfills.</text></comment>
<story><title>Norton 360 Now Comes with a Cryptominer</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/01/norton-360-now-comes-with-a-cryptominer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hules</author><text>I wonder if anybody has estimations of the contribution of anti-virus software to global warming. They run on almost all desktop computers, are generally large and bloated applications that consume tons of cpu for their continuous scans, I would not be too surprised if was far from negligible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rileymat2</author><text>Quibble, A&amp;#x2F;Vs can hook file accesses and executions so most of the time it is not continuously scanning.</text></comment>