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Re:John McAfee announces he's running for President by rednum on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @08:38AM (#10191031)
Supposedly McAfee antivirus software turned awful after being taken over by Intel. I don't have a source on that, but I've seen this sentiment in a few places.

As for some murder scandal, I think it makes sense to check out his side of story: https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/3hr9f0/i_am_john_mc... https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/3hr9f0/i_am_john_mc...

The entire AMA is quite interesting, though he seems a bit paranoid indeed (on the other hand - if there's some truth in Belize government opressing him, I'm not surprised).

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Re:John McAfee announces he's running for President by SingAlong on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @08:54AM (#10191090)
Source about McAfee software quality going down is John McAfee himself. He made & starred in a video to explain uninstalling McAfee.

[NSFW] https://youtube.com/watch?v=YpRvaQsGIY8

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Re:John McAfee announces he's running for President by rednum on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @09:03AM (#10191134)
I know about this video, but I think opinions of users who used this software back when McAfee actually worked on it (who apparently left company mid-nineties) would be more trustworthy than his own claims. I've tried some googling, but couldn't find anything.
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Re:John McAfee announces he's running for President by m0v_eax on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @09:33AM (#10191298)
I was hoping this wasn't posted yet XD - I believe his recent revelations are as much of a troll as this video.
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Re:John McAfee announces he's running for President by dagw on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @09:00AM (#10191121)
Supposedly McAfee antivirus software turned awful after being taken over by Intel

McAfee was only bought by Intel in 2011, it was getting worse and worse for years before that.

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Re:John McAfee announces he's running for President by rednum on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @09:06AM (#10191149)
True, though wikipedia says McAfee left the company in 1994. So his story of other people messing up his software still seems plausible to me.
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Re:John McAfee announces he's running for President by UnoriginalGuy on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @09:18AM (#10191215)
Hard to say either way. McAfee AV was heavily tied into the popularity of consumer desktops, so before Windows 95 and beyond, it was a tadpole compared to what it grew into.
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