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It doesn’t inject its code into other programs, so it’s not a virus, just general malware.
Wouldn’t it be more akin to a cryptominer, since it’s not doing anything with intent to harm or damage data, but the goal is to gain funds without the user’s knowledge?
It’s just fraud.
A crypto miner uses electricity to test cryptographic solutions in order to find a specific one that “solves” a block of transactions on an blockchain. In order to do this, it runs hashing functions on your computer (usually your GPU).
It’s stealing your processing power and electricity; so no it’s not the same as a cryptocurrency miner, which is theft and fraud of a different type.
Yeah, I know the details but for a widely distributed program with unwanted ‘feature’, it seemed to fit the bill close enough. It’s not 1:1 but I don’t think there’s a name for what honey is, and labeling it as something like a ‘Potentially Unwanted Program’ is too wide of a category for it, since it does do what it says for the user, just also for its own self-interests as well…
i don’t think the people who write, nor enforce our laws, know the difference
Changing the referral codes looks a lot like injecting code into the browser