In 1987, he wrote the first commercial anti-virus software, founding McAfee Associates to sell his creation. He resigned in 1994 and sold his remaining stake in the company. [7] McAfee became the company's most vocal critic in later years, urging consumers to uninstall the company's anti-virus software, which he characterized as bloatware.

2021年6月23日 · John McAfee, the controversial antivirus software magnate who’d had multiple recent run-ins with the US law, has died at 75. McAfee was awaiting extradition in a Spanish prison after being...

2017年5月12日 · John McAfee, the man who created the software in the 1980s, became a household name for his anti-virus software and the millions of dollars he made when he sold his security software firm McAfee Associates. But after he moved to Belize in 2009, McAfee made headlines again for his alleged connection to the murder of his neighbor Gregory Faull.

2021年6月24日 · Born in 1945, McAfee was raised in Virginia. He founded the company that bore his name, one of the first major antivirus software development companies, in 1987. It searched for and removed...

John David McAfee KBE [2] (September 18, 1945 – June 23, 2021) was a British computer programmer. He was the developer of the first commercial anti-virus program. This bore the McAfee brand-name for years, until it was bought by Intel and given the Intel name.

2024年4月3日 · The late John McAfee, a maverick in the world of cybersecurity, left an indelible mark on the technology landscape. Known for founding the eponymous antivirus software company, McAfee, his life was as enigmatic as it was controversial.

2021年6月24日 · MADRID (AP) — John McAfee, the creator of McAfee antivirus software, was found dead in his jail cell near Barcelona in an apparent suicide Wednesday, hours after a Spanish court approved his extradition to the United States to face tax charges punishable by decades in prison, authorities said.

John McAfee’s name is synonymous with the rise of antivirus software, but his life story extends far beyond technology. A maverick, visionary, and polarizing figure, McAfee’s journey through innovation, wealth, controversy, and self-imposed exile paints a picture of a man who refused to be bound by convention.

Drugs, murder, prostitution, politics, and yoga swirl around the man who created the first commercial antivirus product and whose name still graces one of the largest cybersecurity companies in the world. He hates it. McAfee has been a candidate for president of the United States and an expatriate living on a remote island in Belize.

2021年7月1日 · As the inventor of the antivirus software that bears his name, John McAfee, who has died aged 75 after apparently taking his own life in a Spanish prison, turned paranoia into a fortune.