Posted on 11/13/2012 8:12:26 AM PST by RummyChick
In an telephone interview with Wired on Monday, McAfee revealed he was convinced the police were after him and would kill him if he went in for an interview.
He said he was innocent and that he hid under the sand while the police searched his property. He is currently on the run somewhere in Belize, though his exact location is unknown.
McAfee claims he has nothing to do with the murder nor knows anything about it, except that the neighbour had been shot.
McAfee also expressed concern that he was the real target and that Faull's murder was a case of mistaken identity.
(Excerpt) Read more at ibtimes.co.uk ...
Here is the Wired story.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/11/threatlevel_1112_mcafee/
From the one pic of him that I saw, he looks very tightly strung
This guy is starting to remind me of Johnny DuPont. A high tech version.
The picture with the gun??
Interesting that he says he has no plans to leave Belize even though they are out to get him.
Given that he sold his company for 7 billion dollars..he could hire mercenaries to protect him while living in a foreign country.
Maybe he thought the other guy was malware.
Couldn’t he quarantine him then do research.
His crappy software has killed countless PCs.
Maybe he had a virus................
No, not that one.
Yahoo ran what looked like a more recent photo of him where he wasn’t wearing sunglasses
With all the trouble I’ve had with McAfee slowing up my computer and hanging it up in the past, I’d like to see him get strung up.
Dude lost his ass when Lehman crashed. McAfee is passe in antivirus cooperatives (even freeware is better). He spends his time high on bath salts or says he is investigating new compounds (right,he’s a pharmacologist, too).
He is simply, insane. Mephedrone and other cathinones are his thing now— bath salts, paranoia and murderous behaviour. He will be found dead one day by one of his own kind’s or his own hand. Que Sera.
Is he saying that some men poisoned his dogs to silence them so that they wouldn't bark when they went to kill his neighbor???
Probably someone who bought his antivirus.
LOL. At least the thread-starter should read the article to the end!
"McAfee sold his stake in the company he founded in the 90s' for $100m, to then reportedly lose large part of the sum in the financial crisis."
I was reading about this nut last night. He reminded me a lot of Phil Spector the music producer. Made a ton of money then went into hiding spending all his time doing drugs then killed someone.
John was always a crook, of the worst kind. Started out as a scammer. Remained a scammer.
The locals are up in arms because this very wealthy American uses his wealth to sexually exploit underage girls. But he has a bigger problem.
Because of his wealth, he has been the target of many violent criminals. His solution has been to hire them as security consultants - convincing them they will be wealthier and safer by taking his offer. That is after all, following the legacy of his software empire, the hacker’s approach. What could possibly go wrong?
Unless what I have been reading about him is merely a smear campaign by his enemies, he seems to be descending into madness.
McAfee clogged up, and nearly destroyed, this computer. And the only way I got any attention from the company was to start e-mailing, dozens of times, every address I could find.
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