John McAfee Dead!

[rags747]

Sad day imo

https://www.yahoo.com/news/john-mcafee-dies-suicide-hours-202849676.html

 

[The Fonz]

very sad indeed. too many after him

 

[big dog cowboy]

John McAfee, the tech innovator whose name is synonymous with antivirus software, died by suicide on Wednesday hours after a court approved his extradition from Spain to face U.S. tax evasion charges, officials said.

Wow I had no idea!

 

[cowboyec]

very sad indeed. too many after him

you know he knew ALOT of @#$%.

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

Watched a documentary on him a few years back, what a strange man to say the least. RIP.

 

[Runwildboys]

Sounds innocent.

 

[Ranched]

The eccentric entrepreneur w/an outlaw persona.

 

[nobody]

He tweeted this back in October: “Know that if I hang myself, a la Epstein, it will be no fault of mine.”

RIP. Loved his AV back in the 90's.

 

[NorthoftheRedRiver]

He chose a strange path for his life.

 

[CyberB0b]

By all accounts, he was a scammer, pedophile, and possibly a murderer. While I won't dance on his grave, I don't see it as a sad day, either.

 

[Them]

...Wow...I've used his antivirus software...I never liked it because it would try to take over everything on my desktop...plus when you removed or deleted the program, it would always pop back up in one form or another.....but now I'm interested in who he was as a person...I guess I'll do a little research.

 

[DasTex]

Someone who rode that fine line between genius and lunatic. Interesting guy to say the least.

 

[Seven]

The eccentric entrepreneur w/an outlaw persona.

Yes ma'am........nailed it.

 

[rags747]

...Wow...I've used his antivirus software...I never liked it because it would try to take over everything on my desktop...plus when you removed or deleted the program, it would always pop back up in one form or another.....but now I'm interested in who he was as a person...I guess I'll do a little research.

You should appreciate this then!

 

[Reverend Conehead]

There was actually a third-party utility that you needed to fully uninstall McAfee. His antivirus program had things in common with virus programs.

 

[CyberB0b]

There was actually a third-party utility that you needed to fully uninstall McAfee. His antivirus program had things in common with virus programs.

He was ousted from his company in the early 90s. Before Windows 95 if I remembering correctly.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

He was ousted from his company in the early 90s. Before Windows 95 if I remembering correctly.

That early. He had a bizarre life. He got rich off an antivirus program that was mediocre at best and quite invasive on systems. It did catch malware, so it was better than nothing, but a lot of other programs were better.

 

[nobody]

That early. He had a bizarre life. He got rich off an antivirus program that was mediocre at best and quite invasive on systems. It did catch malware, so it was better than nothing, but a lot of other programs were better.

There were a few years in the 90's where it was the best on the market, tbh...right around the time Norton started to turn into bloatware.

 

[lukin2006]

Wasn’t he wanted for murder in Belize? He is a nutter.