You're wrong because: - Aggressively mining crypto consumes enough system resources that most users would notice it and uninstall the software. (Norton may hav

You're wrong because: - Aggressively mining crypto consumes enough system resources that most users would notice it and uninstall the software. (Norton may have an edge here because users are used to Norton making their systems performance worse) - Even aggressive mining produces very little on the vast majority of systems (really need gaming GPU to make any money). CPU mining hasn't been economically profitable for nearly a decade: Norton probably makes <$0.001 per day on the median machine. Managing a network of chromebooks cryptomining would probably be unprofitable for Norton even if only accounting for the cost to Nortons systems. Norton's only hope of making profits from this is from the "whales" with the best machines. - Multiple programs mining on the same system would split the rewards, drawing down value of such a system even further (unless they use tricks to monopolize system resources in a way that would make it even more noticeable to users).