MtM Posted January 5, 2022 Report Share Posted January 5, 2022 Don't know if any of you use Norton, but if so this might be of interest... https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/new-version-of-norton-360-installs-a-crypto-miner-on-your-pc-by-default.html Spider 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetsetdanny Posted January 6, 2022 Report Share Posted January 6, 2022 Thanks for this warning, MtM! I am using McAfee on some of my machines and Panda on others (when I say "my" I also mean my family). I don't recall ever using Norton, at least not in the last decade. If you hear anything bad about McAfee or Panda, please let me know! 🙂 Spider 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spider Posted January 6, 2022 Report Share Posted January 6, 2022 Thanks @MtM , it is useful to know! 😮 I've not used that product since the late 90's , I seem to recall reading something about iexplore.exe at that time not being checked. I still have my original Norton Utils 2003 which worked well with Windows 98x and NT4 (yes I used that too!) and did work with Windows 2000 until service packs appeared (iirc SP4) , then it stopped working, and there was no Utils update to 'fix' this. 😞 Regarding 'what is really running' there's a useful tool from MSDN or SysInternals I think called 'Autoruns' that will show you exactly what is running. This I found very helpful to disable a broken 'UltraDefrag At Boot' process that was otherwise completely out of sight. You can very easily I think with Autoruns brick your install though as it does show everything, care needed. jetsetdanny 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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