McAfee on the run for murder (Yes, anti-virus guy)

[Soontir C'boath]

John McAfee is the prime suspect in a shooting on his Belize island home

Gizmodo reported Monday that eccentric anti-virus pioneer John McAfee is wanted by Belize police for murder. Sixty-seven-year-old McAfee is a prime suspect in the killing of American expat Gregory Faull, who was shot dead Saturday night at his home on the Belize island of Ambergris Caye.

“Last Wednesday, Faull filed a formal complaint against McAfee with the mayor’s office, asserting that McAfee had fired off guns and exhibited ‘roguish behavior,’” Gizmodo reported. “Their final disagreement apparently involved dogs.”

A Gizmodo profile of McAfee published just last week noted that the “founding-father” of anti-virus software had become “increasingly erratic, and by his own admission he had begun associating with some of the most notorious gangsters in Belize.”

The site attributes his estrangement from friends and members of the Belize expat community partially to his intensive use of psychosis-inducing hallucinogens — a practice he reportedly regularly posts about on message boards under pseudonyms. Gizmodo offered perturbing details about McAfee’s interest in using drugs to coerce women into sex:

McAfee’s purported interest in extracting medicine from jungle plants provided him a wholesome justification for building a well-equipped chemistry lab in a remote corner of Belize. The specific properties of the drugs he was attempting to isolate also fit in well with what those closest to him have reported: that he is an enthusiastic amateur pharmacologist with a longstanding interest in drugs that induce sexual behavior in women. Indeed, former friends of McAfee have said he could be extremely persistent and devious in trying to coerce women who rebuff his advances to have sex with him.

McAfee sold his company to Intel in 2010 for almost $7.7 billion. According to Belize police, McAfee has not yet been apprehended for Faull’s murder and is considered to be on the run.

[The Duchess of Zeon]

I see someone is trying to live their life in imitation of the lyrics of a couple of Warren Zevon songs.

[The Grim Squeaker]

What I don't get, is why he doesn't just fucking LEAVE Belize. (Apparently he :
""McAfee insists he has no plans to leave the country. “I like it here,” he says. “It’s the nicest place on earth.” "

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/1 ... 12_mcafee/

If I was him, whether i'd done it or not (no fucking clue in that direction), I would just get the fuck out of dodge. If he can contact reporters, how hard would it be to charter a private jet or even ultralight plane flight from there to a neighbouring country).

[Dr Roberts]

Maybe he has and was just saying he wouldn't to keep police focused internally?

[Eframepilot]

And I just got an email to renew my subscription today...

(I won't. It was on my last, junked PC anyway.)

[KhorneFlakes]

Serves him right for helping propagate an annoying, buggy and pure shitsack of a antivirus program across the Internet.

Oh, and by the way - he's shoved Bath Salts, that drug the Miami dude took and went batshit from - up his anus.

No, I'm not kidding. He really has.

[Instant Sunrise]

At least the legal system in Belize will give him a 30 day trial

[Lord of the Abyss]

And I just got an email to renew my subscription today...

(I won't. It was on my last, junked PC anyway.)

He sold the company that makes McAfee antivirus years ago.

[Broomstick]

What I don't get, is why he doesn't just fucking LEAVE Belize...[snip]... I would just get the fuck out of dodge. If he can contact reporters, how hard would it be to charter a private jet or even ultralight plane flight from there to a neighbouring country).

You're assuming that someone who apparently has made a hobby of ingesting large and varied quantities of mind-altering substances is thinking rationally. It's a good bet that he isn't.

Or maybe he's just afraid of flying...?

[whackadoodle]

Or maybe he's just afraid of flying...?

According to last night's broadcast of Marketplace, McAfee tried to popularize his invented sport of 'mapping', which involved racing small aircraft over the desert...10 feet over the desert.
I'm going with 'batshit'.

[The Yosemite Bear]

so the guy who invented the security software that is still not letting me remove it from my computer fully, went off the Hunter S. Thompson deep end, along with that freaky wig guy who created the wall of sound.....

[Ariphaos]

John hasn't been involved in the company named after him since 1994. He owns a number of businesses in and around Belize, two of which IIRC involved chartering flights.

Anyway, he has put up a blog for defending himself.

[Solauren]

Somewhere, the old hacker/virus group Y.A.M (Youths Against McAfee), the members that still care, are laughing their asses off over this.

Probably Phalcon/Skism, ARCV, and a few others too.

Man, I can't believe I'm old enough to remember those guys.....