I wanted to test Norton's Eth mining tool. It's very simple to use and understand. You mine every 10 minutes and will get some mining shares of Eth. When you accumulate .0021 or more in your wallet is when you can transfer it out to be sold (just remember you have to have a total of .0021 or more to sell for payout).
My Experiment:
I been mining for the last 3 days at different hours to see what my hash rate was using my Geforce 2080 Ti and having X1 program to monitor and maintain a balance fan speed and and temps. In the time frame of say 36 hours (no more than 12 hours total mining) I have totaled 0.000665843672 ETH and at the current price of $ 3,124 U.S dollars = $ 2.04 on my return. When this is compared with the .0021 payout mark would equate to about $ 6.55 at the current above Eth prices.
I then looked at my Energy consumption by the hour (awesome Coserv company to be able to see this) and I can see a spike at certain hours of usage and know I was using my computer only to mine Eth. I know currently it would not be worth the energy cost vs. mining return ratio, because I would have to reach the payout goal of .0021 every 3 days to break even. Also consider if I ran the mining program for 36 hours I risk burning out my graphics card which in no way would it be worth it (remember chip shortage = video card prices are more than MSRP for mid-top tier).
Conclusion: I give Norton 100% praise for offering this as an easy option; however the downside currently is U.S. Energy prices vs. Mining return ratio. The other con for mining currently is the (Mining Pools), if more and more people were to join Norton's mining of Eth it could help in the future. I suggest anyone who is getting into crypto-mining to read up on the pros/cons of tackling this as a solo and pool miner.
Thank you,
* (The error on calculations are not 100% accurate but a current example of my personal situation and will also change constantly with the price of the crypto).