In 1946, a "mediocre" boy was born at an American military base in Britain: John McAfee, and the family soon moved to a house in Roallock, Virginia.
His father was an alcoholic and violent temper, punching and kicking at the slightest disagreement, McAfee was often subjected to domestic violence by his father when he was a child, so what did her mother do?
Her mother had been so violently abused by his father that she could not move.
Although his father often angered their mother and son, he did not relieve his physical and mental pressure in the slightest, and eventually had to vent on himself.
In 1961, McAfee's father could not withstand the pressure, drank a bullet and committed suicide, leaving them to die, leaving their mother and son to live together.
The death of his father cast a great shadow on McAfee's psychology, and coupled with the lack of discipline, McAfee soon learned to drink and take drugs, and gradually degenerated into an "old rogue" like his father.
But that doesn't stop him from being a genius, born with a talent for business.
While attending Roallock College, McAfee came up with a money-making plan: to sell fake magazines.
Here's how he did it: He went door-to-door and told every resident that they were eligible for free subscriptions to some journals and magazines, and they only had to pay for shipping!
Isn't this wave of operations the current cash on delivery routine? Things are free, only pay a "slightly more expensive" postage, think I was tricked by an electric toothbrush that year, and I still think about it!
This trick had not yet been added to the anti-deception manual at that time, and many people were deceived. McAfee, on the other hand, used all the money he earned to get drunk!
After that, McAfee also successfully graduated with a bachelor's degree in mathematical science, after all, with his intelligence, even if he did not play the routine, college undergraduate was not difficult for him.
He also bought a bachelor's degree at Louisiana State University in 1968.
During his Ph.D., McAfee was thrown out of the academy for playing the "Tetris Game" with his undergraduates.
McAfee began his wild and windy life.
To support yourself after graduation, you have to find a job to support yourself, and to find a decent job, you have to have a beautiful resume.
So he forged a glittering fake resume because no company was willing to recruit a jobboy who had been fired.
Sure enough, his resume made him receive a lot of olive branches, he had used ibm mMA computers to dispatch trains at the Pacific Company in Missouri, and sometimes he went to dispatch trains just after YTW in the morning, which was not enough, he was hooked on a hallucinogen, in order to facilitate his drug trafficking.
Like his father, his wild and violent personality not only lost his job but often clashed with other drug dealers, and once it was arguably the darkest moment of his man's career, when he was hammered out of an OO, and he didn't know what the other party's purpose was, hammering one instead of two.
At this time, his wife also divorced him, not because he lacked an OO, but because the two personalities were incompatible. I'm convinced of that!
The more a person lacks something, the more he wants to prove that he is not lacking, even stronger than others, so he later frantically finds women to play the "Russian game"!
In 1974, he left this "sad" place and went to Silicon Valley, California, where he changed jobs for more than a dozen times, one of the jobs NASA programmed apes he ever did!
A computer data storage company in Santa Clara County was at his worst. Bottle after bottle of whiskey at work, coke spray in the nose, obsessed with sleeping ketone...
When he returned home, he was even more crazy, paranoid and lonely, and even wanted to end his life at one point, just like his father.
But God said don't die first, go get an antivirus first!
So in 1983, he got help from a therapist and joined alcoholic beverage anonymous, and after a period of treatment he finally "came back to life with blood".
Later joined the big aerospace airlines.
During that time he heard about the computer virus, the first virus on the IBM PC, which was invented in 1986 by the brothers Basit and Amjad from Pakistan.
They invented this computer virus to prevent copies of the software that were popular at the time.
In less than a year, the virus infected personal computers around the world.
The brothers also left their contact information in the virus so that they knew which computers were infected with the virus, so it was transparent and harmless.
McAfee's opportunity finally came, and he sniffed out a huge business opportunity. There is a virus, call it harmful and harmless, the virus is a virus, it needs to be cleaned up.
McAfee's work at NASA is enough to prove that his programming skills are excellent. He knows how to kill viruses, but most computer users don't.
In 1987, McAfee developed McAfee antivirus software at his home in Santa Clara County, California, and named it after himself.
Don't forget, McAfee was once NASA's program ape, and in just one year, he developed the world's first anti-virus software and narcissistically named it after himself , McAfee.
He then bought a 27-foot motorhome filled with computers and equipment and traveled the country to market his antivirus software as "the first anti-virus medical unit." The scene was as familiar as his college sales of fake magazines.
He also made his software public on BBS, which anyone can download for free, and in turn pushed the software to enterprise users, so that he can profit from the enterprise user's installation package fee.
In order to gain more exposure, while advocating their own software, they must also promote the great harm of viruses.
To this end, he also wrote a book called "Computer Viruses, Worms, Data Fraud, Program Killers, and Other Threats", which is a long title to scare people!
He was not writing enough books, and he was also alarmist on television: many companies were about to go bankrupt because of computer viruses, and they also made up a name and surname, saying that a virus called "Michelangelo" was about to destroy the world's computers.
Under the full range of marketing promotions, McAfee's sales have soared, and his revenue reached $5 million in 1990!
As the virus continues to increase, the fees for patent licensing allow McAfee's wealth to accumulate rapidly! Half a year's effort to become one of the world's top 100, McAfee has become a super boss worth $80 million!
After having money, McAfee began to truly let go of himself.
In 2010, due to peer competition, such as Norton and other opponents, coupled with McAfee antivirus software becoming increasingly bloated to attract customer dislike, and McAfee himself because of the name and software, often attracted hackers attacks, he had to frequently change IP and computers, and his company began to decline.
In 2010, he sold McAfee to Intel for $7.68 billion and told the media:
I don't use this software myself, it's too much trouble.
When he was so poor that he had only money left, McAfee began to look for excitement, first became fascinated by the "extreme challenge" sport, and in a low-altitude flight, "successfully" gave his little nephew's life.
In 2012, the 67-year-old McAfee auctioned off all his possessions, then bought Ambergris Island in the Caribbean, and has lived a happy life without shame and impatience, occasionally doing "multi-person sports" with five or six girls.
An OO does not give power, just "open the plug- and plug" to his own ass to help, to prove that he not only has, but also better than others!
Even so, there are always people who are unfair, since it is unfair to destroy this man, everyone can't get it, so it's fair!
So on a dark and windy night in a month, this girl took advantage of McAfee's sleep, pulled out a gun, held his head, and the dog's blood was actually crooked.
McAfee had a lingering feeling: I always pointed a gun at a woman, and today I was shot by a woman with a gun!
However, the real trouble that caused him to get into trouble was the next day! When he woke up, he found that his dog had been poisoned, and his neighbor was inexplicably shot to death.
A 9mm diameter Ruger pistol case was found at the scene, and unfortunately, McAfee also liked to carry a 9mm Ruger pistol for self-defense.
McAfee once quarreled with a neighbor, so far the motive and evidence of the killing are complete, the police believe that McAfee killed the neighbor for the dog's revenge, but McAfee did not admit guilt, in the face of the police accusation he defended:
"It's really uncomfortable."
"I didn't know anything, all I heard was that he was shot."
"I thought they were coming for me, but I just mistook Farr for me. They found the wrong house. Farr was dead, and they killed him, which scared me out. ”
Despite McAfee's strenuous pleas, the police identified him as the prime suspect in the case. In McAfee's view, he became a suspect not because he was suspected of murder, but because he did not donate money to certain political organizations, and he was a victim of political persecution, he protested:
"I wouldn't want to talk to the police in this country under any circumstances, you could say I'm delusional, but they're going to kill me, there's no doubt about that. They've been trying to arrest me for months, and they've wanted me to shut up. The Prime Minister doesn't like me, I'm a thorn in their eye, a thorn in their flesh. ”
In order to prove his innocence, he offered a reward on his blog, but in the end no one came to collect the reward.
McAfee thought that after being arrested by the police, he could only die and simply ran away.
Others run away for fear of being discovered, how far they can hide. McAfee's behavior was unexpected, no one before, no one came after!
He actually broadcast his "fugitive career" live on the Internet and opened a new blog www.whoismcafee.com documenting the time of his escape, the media description of him, and the "harassment" of the Belize police.
McAfee once described in his blog that he had carefully designed to hide his whereabouts, which was extremely arrogant.
He then put smoke bombs on his blog:
"The MacPhee in Mexico, who was arrested for misprovisioning, was no more than a North Korean passport with the same name as me. But due to police neglect, he was kicked out of prison. In this way, he did not achieve his goal of helping me escape. ”
McAfee doesn't know what the future holds for his "escape career":
"I don't have a crystal ball to predict the future and I'll keep fighting until something changes. I'm not going to stop fighting, and I'm not going to stop blogging. ”
He then formally requested political asylum from Belize into neighboring Guatemala, explaining:
"Yes, I want to clarify that I sought asylum not because I committed murder, but because I am now persecuted by the local government."
But Belize police denied they had not persecuted McAfee and had not issued an arrest warrant. The prime minister of Belize even expressed doubts about McAfee's mental state.
McAfee then entered Guatemala without knowing what "riot operation" was used. Because of the riotous operation of his fellow reporters: uploading the unprocessed photos of the two to the Internet, the police arrested the police and then deported to the United States according to the geographical location information of the photos, which was only a few dozen hours after he proposed political asylum.
Then McAfee's wild idea actually wanted to sell his legendary experience of "escaping to his career" to the film and television company.
The Montreal company, canada, thought his experience was even better than a Hollywood script, so it purchased the exclusive rights to Absconding: The True Story of John McPhee, including publishing rights to films, TV series, books and other forms of media.
McAfee expressed heartfelt thanks, saying:
"Their quest for the truth is extraordinary"
Later, the "old rogue" McAfee suddenly convulsed all over his body in order to escape and incarnate into the "Shadow Emperor". The convulsions were very accurate and timely, and his lawyer immediately told the police that McAfee had suffered two mild heart attacks, and now the illness needed to be treated immediately, otherwise his life would be in danger.
Finally under the "efforts" of the lawyer team and himself, he was released.
But do you think McAfee has stopped and kept a low profile? No, no, this is obviously not the style of "old hooligans", and the next operation is even more surprising.
In 2015, McAfee ran for president with a history of drug dealers, wanted and entangled with U.S. police officers, claimed to be a candidate for the Cyber Party, and built a "campaign website" to vote for himself.
In his style, he was a belittling of the president who was in office at the time:
The Obama administration doesn't understand what privacy means, so let me explain!
He eventually lost to Liberal candidate Gary Johnson in the party competition. Johnson got 3% of the vote in the election!
In 2016, after the defeat of the presidential campaign, McAfee, who could not idle for a moment, became the CEO of MGT Capital Investment as a "technology tycoon", and confidently changed the company's name to his own, and also reversed the acquisition of his own counter-espionage company, and the company's stock price soared by 700%.
Later, he also participated in China's Internet Security Conference, and 360 Zhou Hongyi was fortunate to exchange and learn with him.
In 2017, the price of Bitcoin soared, and he began to "live stream with goods" (always at the forefront of popularity), claiming that in 2020 Bitcoin will rise to $1 million a piece, if it does not rise, live performance to eat his remaining OO!
As a result, the price of Bitcoin plunged sharply in 18 years, and angry netizens poisoned him, making McAfee almost lose his life.
McAfee's early years of alcoholism, drug abuse..... The first thing to do after retrieving a life is to give the middle finger to the poisoner!
On July 6, 2019, McAfee, 74, wearing shorts, tropical short-sleeved shirts and sunglasses on a yacht docked in the port of Havana, Cuba, announced: As a liberal party candidate, he will participate in the 2020 US presidential election!
Not bad! The "old hooligan" was not willing to lose the election last time and came to run again.
However, on October 3, 2020, McAfee was arrested at Barcelona's El Prat Airport for tax evasion in the United States and was charged with a local prison in Spain.
He was charged with failing to file U.S. tax returns between 2014 and 2018 and concealing assets including real estate, cars and yachts in the name of others, allegedly evading taxes for up to $4 million.
McAfee has since refused to extradite back to the United States, claiming:
"He is politically persecuted for denouncing the corruption of the IRS and a central bank-controlled monetary system like the Federal Reserve."
On October 15, 2020, McAfee tweeted:
"I am very satisfied here. I have friends and the food was delicious. Everything was fine. ”
On June 24, 2020, McAfee was found dead in a prison in Barcelona, Spain, just days before he was extradited back to the United States by a Spanish court.
If extradited back to the U.S., he will also face allegations from the government of alleged cryptocurrency fraud against his previous "live streaming bitcoins," in which he profited more than $23 million.
McAfee, 75, hanged himself hours after the extradition ruling was announced, according to local media reports.
And Javier Villalba, his lawyer in Spain, said McAfee could no longer bear to be locked up.
But what is certain is that a generation of legendary McAfee has come to an end, as he once said about his past:
I don't want to change my past life at all. Even if it's a little different, my life course will change a lot, I won't be what I am now, I like the way I am now.