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John McAfee
BornSeptember 1946
England
NationalityBritish / American
Alma materRoanoke College
Occupation(s)computer programer, software developer, founder of McAfee
Known forMcAfee
SpouseJudy McAfee (separated)
WebsiteWho is McAfee?

John McAfee (born September 1945[1] or 1946[2]) is a British-American computer programmer and founder of McAfee, Inc.

Early life

McAfee was born in England and raised in Salem, Virginia. He received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Roanoke College in 1967.[2]

Ventures

McAfee was employed as a programmer by NASA's Institute for Space Studies in New York City from 1968 to 1970. From there he went to Univac as a software designer and later to Xerox as an operating system architect. In 1978 he joined Computer Sciences Corporation as a software consultant. Later, while employed by Lockheed in the 1980s, McAfee received a copy of the Pakistani Brain computer virus and began developing software to combat viruses.

In 1987 McAfee founded McAfee Associates, a computer anti-virus company.[2] He was the first to distribute anti-virus software using the shareware business model.[citation needed] In 1989, he quit Lockheed and began working full-time at McAfee Associates, which he initially operated from his home in Santa Clara, California.[citation needed] The company was incorporated in the state of Delaware in 1992, and McAfee resigned from the company in 1994.[2] Two years after McAfee Associates went public, McAfee sold his remaining stake in the company.[3] Network Associates was formed in 1997 as a merger of McAfee Associates and Network General. This company later became Network Associates, a name it retained for seven years until it was renamed McAfee. Now a subsidiary of Intel corporation,[4][5] McAfee remains today as one of the largest anti-virus companies in the world.

Other business ventures that he founded included Tribal Voice, which developed one of the first instant messaging programs,[6] PowWow. In 2000, John McAfee invested in and joined the board of directors of Zone Labs, makers of firewall software, prior to its acquisition by Check Point Software in 2003.[7]

In August 2009, The New York Times reported that McAfee's personal fortune had declined to $4 million from a peak of $100 million, the effect of the global financial crisis and recession on his investments.[3]

Beginning in February 2010, McAfee started a new venture in the field of bacterial quorum sensing. His company QuorumEx[8] is headquartered in Belize and is working towards producing commercial all natural antibiotics based on anti-quorum sensing technology.[9][10]

Personal life

McAfee teaches yoga[11] and has written several books about yoga.[12]

In a 2012 article in Mensa Bulletin, the magazine of American Mensa, he stated that being the developer of the first commercial anti-virus program has made him "the most popular hacking target", adding "Hackers see hacking me as a badge of honor". He added that for his own security he has other people buy his computer equipment for him, uses pseudonyms for setting up computers and logging in, and changes his IP address several times a day.[13]

In 2012, when asked if he personally uses McAfee anti-virus he replied by saying "I take it off," and that "It's too annoying."[14]

As of January, 2013, McAfee is living in Portland, Oregon, intending to work on an autobiography in graphic novel form.[15]

Former cocaine baron "Boston George Jung" is tipped to be writing No Domain, McAfee's official biography.[16]

On April 30, 2012, McAfee's property in Orange Walk Town, Belize, was raided by the Gang Suppression Unit. A GSU press release stated that McAfee was arrested for unlicensed drug manufacturing and possession of an unlicensed weapon.[10][17][18][19][20] He was released without charge.[21] In 2012, Belize police spokesman Raphael Martinez confirmed that he was not convicted nor charged but only suspected.[22]

On November 12, 2012, Belize police started a search for McAfee as a "person of interest" in connection to the murder of American expatriate Gregory Viant Faull. Faull was found dead of a gunshot wound on November 11, 2012, at his home on the island of Ambergris Caye, the largest island in Belize.[23][24] Faull was a neighbor of McAfee.[25] No one has yet been formally charged.[24] In a November 2012 interview with Wired, [26] McAfee said that he has always been afraid police would kill him and thus refused their routine questions; he has since been evading the Belizean authorities.[25] Belize's prime minister Dean Barrow called McAfee "extremely paranoid, even bonkers".[27] McAfee fled Belize when he was sought for questioning concerning the murder.[28][29][30][31]

McAfee accidentally gave away his location at a Guatemalan resort in early December 2012 by letting Vice take a picture with his iPhone and post it online with the Exif geolocation metadata still attached to it.[32] He then appeared publicly in Guatemala City and attempted to seek political asylum. On December 5, 2012, McAfee was arrested for illegally entering Guatemala. Shortly after being placed under arrest, a board to review McAfee's plea for asylum was formed. The committee denied his asylum, so he was taken from his holding facility to a detention center in order to await deportation to Belize.Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page). On December 6, 2012, Reuters and ABC News reported that John McAfee had two minor heart attacks in a Guatemalan detention center and was hospitalized.[33][34] His lawyer stated that McAfee had not suffered heart attacks, but he had instead suffered from high blood pressure and anxiety attacks.[35][36][37] McAfee later stated that he faked the heart attack while being held in Guatemala to buy time for his attorney to file a series of appeals that ultimately prevented his deportation to Belize, hastening the government's decision to send him back to the United States.[38] On December 12, 2012, McAfee was released from detention in Guatemala and deported to the United States.[39]

See also

References

  1. ^ "John McAfee". NNDB. Soylent Communications. Retrieved December 13, 2012. Most newspaper sources give 1945 as his year of birth. Some book sources give 1946. General agreement is that he was born in the month of September during one of these years, somewhere in England. The exact day (September 18th) is from McAfee's Facebook page, which we have verified to be genuine.
  2. ^ a b c d Woodford, Chris (2007). Inventors and Inventions, Volume 4. Marshall Cavendish. pp. 1030–33. ISBN 0-7614-7767-5.
  3. ^ a b Leonhardt, David; Fabrikant, Geraldine (August 21, 2009). "Rise of the Super-Rich Hits a Sobering Wall" (article). The New York Times. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
  4. ^ "Intel Completes Acquisition of McAfee". McAfee News. 28 February 2011.
  5. ^ "Intel in $7.68bn McAfee takeover". BBC News. 19 August 2010.
  6. ^ Pontin, Jason (May 1, 2005). "From the Editor | MIT Technology Review". Technologyreview.com. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
  7. ^ "Zone Labs To Get Funding, New Board Member". October 2, 2000. Retrieved November 17, 2012.
  8. ^ "Quorum sensing inhibitor agents from the jungles and savannas of Belize". QuorumEx.com. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
  9. ^ "Plagued by Lawsuits, McAfee Founder Hunts for Cures in Belize" (article). Fast Company. May 1, 2010.
  10. ^ a b Wise, Jeff (8 November 2012), Secrets, Schemes, and Lots of Guns: Inside John McAfee’s Heart of Darkness, Gizmodo
  11. ^ "Arkansas Yoga Center - John McAfee Workshop 2002". Aryoga.com. 2002-03-09. Retrieved 2012-11-15.
  12. ^ "John McAfee: Books". Amazon.com. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
  13. ^ "The M Files" (interview feature), Mensa Bulletin, January 2012, p. 21
  14. ^ Thomson, Adam (December 7, 2012). "Four hours with John McAfee". FT Magazine. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
  15. ^ O'Hara, Mary Emily (January 11, 2013). "Software Millionaire John McAfee Says He Is Now Calling Portland Home". Willamette Week. Retrieved February 23, 2013.
  16. ^ ""Boston George" Jung Writing The Official John Mcafee Biography Titled No Domain". Impact Future Media.
  17. ^ "GSU says McAfee's research facility had unlicensed weapons". Channel 5 Belize. May 2, 2012. Retrieved 2012-05-04.
  18. ^ "Antivirus Founder, John McAfee, says politics caused GSU raid". Channel 5 Belize. May 2, 2012. Retrieved May 4, 2012.
  19. ^ "Belize SWAT team raids antivirus pioneer McAfee" (article). Ken Smith. May 7, 2012.
  20. ^ McGinnes, Jamie (25 May 2012). "Millionaire on the run: How the man who founded software giant McAfee lost his fortune and ended up hiding from police in Belize after they 'rousted him from the bed of a 17-year-old and shot his dog because he's running a meth lab'". Daily Mail.
  21. ^ Jones, Patrick E. (November 13, 2012). "Belize police urge software founder to appear". Associated Press. Retrieved 2012-12-26.
  22. ^ UPDATE 2-Software pioneer McAfee says framed for murder in Belize, Reuters, November 13, 2012
  23. ^ Jeff Wise (November 12, 2012), Exclusive: John McAfee Wanted for Murder, Gizmodo
  24. ^ a b Jeremy A. Kaplan, Alec Liu (November 12, 2012), Exclusive: U.S. antivirus legend John McAfee wanted for murder in Belize, Fox News
  25. ^ a b Davis, Joshua Davis (November 12, 2012), Murder Suspect John McAfee: I'm Innocent, Wired
  26. ^ Menchu, Sofia; Kriel, Lomi. "Guatemala detains software guru McAfee, to expel him to Belize". Reuters.com. Retrieved 2012-12-26.
  27. ^ Allen, Nick (November 15, 2012). "John Mcafee is 'bonkers', says Belize prime minister". The Telegraph. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
  28. ^ Jamie Mcginnes. "John McAfee arrested in Belize after police 'claim he is running a meth lab' | Mail Online". Dailymail.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-12-26.
  29. ^ Menchu, Sofia. "Guatemala detains software guru McAfee, to expel him to Belize | Reuters". Reuters. Retrieved 2012-12-26.
  30. ^ "Fugitive McAfee seeks asylum in Guatemala". AFB. November 15, 2012. Retrieved December 5, 2012.
  31. ^ "UPDATE 4-Guatemala detains software guru McAfee, to expel him to Belize". Reuters. December 6, 2012. Retrieved 2012-12-26.
  32. ^ Weitzenkorn, Ben (4 December 2012). "McAfee's Rookie Mistake Gives Away His Location". TechNewsDaily. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
  33. ^ Matt Gutman and Anne Laurent (December 6, 2012). "John McAfee Suffers Possible Heart Attack at Guatemala Detention Center". ABC News. Retrieved December 6, 2012.
  34. ^ "John McAfee: Software entrepreneur hospitalized in Guatemala after heart attacks". Chicago Tribune. December 6, 2012. Retrieved December 6, 2012.
  35. ^ "McAfee in hospital scare after losing asylum bid". Rappler.com. Agence France-Presse. December 7, 2012. Retrieved December 8, 2012.
  36. ^ Salay, Miguel (December 7, 2012). "McAfee returns to Guatemalan detention center after hospital visit". CNN. Turner Broadcasting System. Retrieved December 8, 2012.
  37. ^ "McAfee ontslagen uit ziekenhuis". NOS.nl. December 7, 2012. Retrieved 2012-12-26.
  38. ^ Zarrella, John. "John McAfee says he faked heart attack to avoid deportation to Belize". CNN. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
  39. ^ "UPDATE: McAfee Released, Leaving Guatemala For The U.S." NPR. Retrieved December 12, 2012.

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