In 1986 the world’s first PC-oriented virus was developed – albeit without malicious intent – by two brothers in Pakistan. Through a therapist, he eventually found his way to AA and got himself sober. In 1983 he quit his job at Omex, where his daily routine involved cocaine, Quaaludes and a bottle of Scotch, and found himself alone and contemplating suicide. Whilst working there he also developed a fondness for LSD and other hallucinogens.īy the 1970s he was in Silicon Valley, bouncing from job to job, all the while guzzling drugs and booze. He learnt to code while drifting through various jobs, eventually ending up developing a system for routing trains while working for the Missouri Pacific Railroad. In a 2013 interview with Wired, McAfee admitted that ‘ every day I wake up with him.’ĭespite inheriting his father’s fondness for booze, McAfee went on to study for a PhD in mathematics in Louisiana before being kicked out for sleeping with an undergraduate student. His father, a violent alcoholic who took out his frustration and unhappiness on his wife and son, shot himself dead. The pivotal event of McAfee’s early life took place when he was 15. The family moved to Virginia while John was still young and he would eventually graduate from Roanoake College with a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics. McAfee was born in England in 1945, where his American father was stationed on a US Army base.
All of which is at odds with the man who came up with it. It runs in the background, keeps our computers safe and every few months reminds us to renew our subscriptions.
#JOHN MCAFEE ANTIVIRUS MOVIE#
Aaron Sorkin is unlikely to write a movie script about its creation.
It lacks the sleek sexiness of an iPhone or the cutting-edge cool of a Tesla. When compared to so many other products of Silicon Valley, McAfee software is hardly likely to get the blood racing.
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