McAfee committed suicide! The omnipotent anti-virus software for 30 years has also come to an end.

In the early days of the Internet era, there were not many users with personal computers, and at that time, users' awareness of computer security and antivirus was slightly weak. Therefore, users in that era paid little attention to the security protection of computer information.

At this time, some malicious people discovered the importance of personal information, so computer viruses came into being.

As the saying goes, "Everything in the world cherishes each other and lives together". Since there is a virus, there is naturally antivirus. Up to now, McAfee is the most famous anti-virus software in the world.

Unfortunately, John, the founder of McAfee, who is known as the "father of antivirus software"? John mcafee was suspected of committing suicide at the age of 75.

According to several Spanish media reports, anti-virus software giant McAfee was found dead in a prison cell in Barcelona. Not long ago, the Spanish court approved the extradition of McAfee to the United States on charges of tax evasion. As a result, a few hours after the extradition ruling, McAfee hanged himself. The lawyer hired by McAfee in Spain said that the prison medical staff tried to save him, but failed.

Earlier, McAfee claimed that the tax charges were politically motivated to retaliate against his failure as a liberal candidate in the 2020 presidential election. Before the criminal charges, the US Securities Commission filed a civil lawsuit against McAfee, accusing him of making $23 million by providing misleading and false advice on cryptocurrency. The US Department of Justice said at the time that if convicted after being extradited to the United States, McAfee would face up to 30 years in prison.

McAfee was born in England in the 1940s. His mother is English and married to an American soldier. /kloc-when he was 0/4 years old, his father shot himself because he was addicted to alcohol. This seems to have laid a lot of groundwork for his legendary life.

McAfee once said that he began to drink heavily in his first year of college and made money by selling magazines to maintain the expenses of various alcoholic drinks. 1986 graduated from Northeast Louisiana State University and began to study for a doctorate in mathematics, but was later expelled from the university for illegally living with an undergraduate (later wife) at school.

McAfee learned the basic knowledge of early computers in a company, and used this knowledge and a forged resume to get a position in Missouri Pacific Railway Company. During his tenure, he used the novel computer system introduced by IBM to help the company calibrate the train timetable. During this period, he began to try all kinds of psychedelic drugs, and his wife left because she couldn't stand living with addicts. In order to be able to return to normal life, McAfee gave up drugs with the help of a therapist.

Later, buster and Amjet, two brothers who run PC shops, developed a software called C-BRAIN to prevent others from copying the software. Once someone tries to copy their software, C-BRAIN will eat the remaining space on the pirate's hard disk. Later, C brain infected computers all over the world.

At that time, McAfee, who had been detoxified for four years, was working on a confidential speech recognition project at Lockheed in Sunnyvale, California, but he saw business opportunities in news reports about C-BRAIN. Therefore, he started to establish McAfee Associates in his home in Santa Clara to develop anti-virus software. By 1990, McAfee's annual income has reached $5 million.

1992, McAfee took Michelangelo virus as the propaganda slogan, which made the sales of McAfee antivirus software soar.

In 20 10, McAfee sold McAfee to Intel at a high price, and then parted ways with McAfee.

On May 1 2065438, McAfee was arrested by the police because the police found drugs and arms in his home. However, the police detained McAfee for several hours and then released him. In the same year165438+1October 13, he was arrested for killing American immigrant Gregory. Farr was arrested by the police. For health reasons, his lawyer tried his best to get him back to America.

20 16, McAfee said on Twitter that he would participate in the US presidential election as a liberal. On 20 19, Weibo declared himself an exile on the high seas, and took Bagu Havana as the campaign base to formally run for the presidency.

In August 2020, McAfee was arrested during the epidemic because he refused to replace the lace thong with a mask. From June 5438 to October 2020, 75-year-old McAfee was arrested and imprisoned for a series of charges. In June of 20021year, McAfee committed suicide in prison.

Looking back on McAfee's legendary life, we can't help but sigh that this former Silicon Valley elite has actually become a prisoner. Most importantly, he sold the antivirus software company he founded. Why?

Before his death, McAfee said that he had reached the retirement age, and the money from selling the company could be used to spend his old age. In addition, he also said that since McAfee was acquired by Intel in 20 10, MAFEE has become the worst antivirus software in the world. Users can't uninstall, but they have to scan all the time, and the scanning speed is very slow. McAfee thinks that the current anti-virus software is dead, because most anti-virus software on the market is still using very old technology, and the hacker's technology update speed is not known how many times faster than anti-virus software.

In fact, McAfee is right, the current anti-virus software is not good. The reasons for this problem can be divided into the following aspects:

1. The computer environment has changed. Because of the rise of mobile devices such as mobile phones and tablets, it means that the Internet of Things has also moved towards the 2.0 mobile era. The battle for PC antivirus software has also stopped, and antivirus software manufacturers have focused on launching mobile products. However, the mobile phone operating system is different from the desktop. Both Android and iOS are relatively closed and have their own security mechanisms. Even Android, without Root, viruses are hard to invade. As a result, antivirus software manufacturers began to think about software housekeeper, installation assistant and other fields.

For example, Jinshan firmly grasped the opportunity of this transformation and launched the cheetah cleaning master on the mobile side. Through the analysis and optimization of Android App one by one, good results have been achieved. According to the statistics at that time, in 20 15 years, the download volume of mobile cheetah master has reached 2 billion times. However, some antivirus software vendors missed this opportunity like Rising, failed to grasp the opportunity of transforming the mobile terminal, and basically withdrew from the market competition.

2. The rise of Microsoft. Since Windows 8, Microsoft has pre-installed Windows Defender in the system, so users don't need to download third-party antivirus software, because the antivirus software that comes with the system is already very powerful. According to the latest data released by AV-TEST, a well-known anti-virus software testing website, Windows Defender got the highest score in all projects.

Whether it is the mobile terminal or the desktop terminal, the system security mechanism pre-installed in the factory has become more perfect and keeps pace with the times, so that users' electronic devices no longer need the protection of third-party antivirus software. It's like cell phones don't need to be jailbroken now. On the one hand, because the manufacturer basically meets all the needs of users, on the other hand, the manufacturer does not want users to fiddle around, which limits some parameters of the mobile phone.

The anti-virus software pre-installed in Windows 10 is the same, which can meet the computer security protection needs of most people. Users really don't need to download third-party antivirus software. Moreover, Internet companies now have their own technical security teams, using AI, cloud and other technologies to strengthen information security, making the living environment of computer viruses difficult, and users' security awareness is much stronger than before.

In addition, antivirus software manufacturers are also imitating the security mechanism of mobile terminals, and McAfee pre-installed by Lenovo computers is a typical case. In the future, more anti-virus software may cooperate with computer brand manufacturers.

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