John McAfee Biography
John McAfee is a British-American computer programmer and businessman. John McAfee founded the software company known as McAfee Associates in 1987 and ran it until 1994 when he resigned from the company.
John McAfee received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics in 1967 from Roanoke College, which subsequently awarded him an honorary Sc.D. degree in 2008.
John Associates achieved early success as the creators of McAfee, had the first commercial antivirus software, and how the business produces a range of enterprise security software. The company was then purchased by Intel in 2011 and was spun back in 2017 with TPG Capital owning a majority stake, though the software has always borne the McAfee brand name.
McAfee’s wealth peaked in 2007 at $100 million dollars, before his investments plummeted in the financial crisis of 2007–2008. Soon after he left McAfee Associates, he founded the company’s Tribal Voice (makers of the PowWow chat program), QuorumEx and Future Tense Central, among others, and has been involved in leadership positions in the companies like Everykey, MGT Capital Investments, and Luxcore, among others.
His personal business interests include smartphone apps, cryptocurrency, yoga, and all-natural antibiotics. He resided for a number of years in Belize but later returned to the United States in 2013. McAfee is also a political activist, who sought the 2016 Libertarian Party nomination for President of the United States in the 2016 election, losing to former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson.
John McAfee Age
John McAfee was born on September 18, 1945, in Cinderford, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England. John McAfee is 74 years old as of 2019. John McAfee is a resident of Lexington, Tennessee, U.S.
John McAfee Body Measurements
Height; ft in'(Meters or cm) Feet & Inches: 6′ . Centimeters: 183 cm. Meters: 1.83 m.
Weight; Pounds(lbs) Weight Kilograms: 79 Kg. Pounds: 174 lbs.
Shoe Size; 8
Body Shape; Not available
Hair Colour; Blonde
Cup Size; Not available
Eye Colour; Dark Brown.
John McAfee Wife
John McAfee’s first marriage was with Judy McAfee whom he divorced in 2002, their actual date of marriage is under review. He then married another wife Janice Dyson in 2013, he lives in Lexington, Tennessee with his wife Janice Dyson. In December 2018, John McAfee stated several times on his Twitter that he has 47 biological children. John McAfee lives with his wife Janice Dyson in Lexington, Tennessee
John McAfee Net Worth | John McAfee bitcoin prediction
John McAfee has a significant stake in MGT Capital, and a small Bitcoin mining company based at Durham. The exact share is not given, but according to the company’s SEC filing, stakeholders hold about 5% of the share or 17.5 million shares. According to the company, each share price is worth $0.07 dollars.
Taking an estimate that John McAfee owns around 5 million shares, at the current price his share would be $350,000. John McAfee also acquired a significant amount of money when he sold his anti-virus company, McAfee Associates.
In December 2017, John McAfee’s net worth was $100 million but due to the 2008 financial crisis, it all changed. According to Forbes, his current worth from the sale of anti-virus software is $4 million. John McAfee also holds a significant amount of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
His exact cryptocurrency holding is unknown. In 2017 and 2018, John McAfee promoted around 50 ICOs. From each ICO he used to charge $100,000+ (or around 5-15 BTC during the peak and after) per tweet. John McAfee has an estimated net worth of $ 100millio dollars as of 2019.
Taking an average number of 8 BTC per tweet, which gives around 400 BTC plus other cryptocurrencies. We can say he roughly owns around 500 BTC. At the current rate of $5,800, his Bitcoin holdings would is worth $2.9 million dollars.
John McAfee currently holds roughly 500 BTC through his ICO promotions. His previous investments in Bitcoin hasn’t been accounted for, as this data isn’t publicly available.
John McAfee’s net worth in Bitcoins is estimated to be $5.15 million dollars. John McAfee has an estimated net worth of $ 180 million dollars as of 2019.
After McAfee Associates
After McAfee associates, John McAfee has started various projects/companies. He also runs an incubator. Apart from his personal companies, John McAfee is on the board of directors of various companies. In 2016, John McAfee announced he would be running for Presidency. After loosing in 2016, he said he will be running once again in 2020.
John McAfee’s Daughter
John McAfee’s daughter is Nyana McAfee. She has an Instagram ( @herr.cartoonz ) page.
John McAfee Ventures
Before McAfee Associates
McAfee was employed as a programmer by NASA’s Institute for Space Studies in New York City from 1968 to 1970. From there he went to Univac as a software designer and later to Xerox as an operating system architect.
In 1978 he joined Computer Sciences Corporation as a software consultant. He worked for consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton from 1980–1982. In the 1980s, while employed by Lockheed, McAfee received a copy of the Brain-computer virus and began developing software to combat viruses.
McAfee Associates
In 1987 McAfee founded McAfee Associates, a computer anti-virus company. The company was incorporated in Delaware in 1992, and McAfee resigned from the company in 1994. Two years after McAfee Associates went public, McAfee sold his remaining stake in the company.
Network Associates was formed in 1997 as a merger of McAfee Associates and Network General. The Network Associates company name was retained for seven years, when it was renamed McAfee, Inc. In August 2010, Intel bought McAfee, maintaining the separate branding, until January 2014, when it announced that McAfee-related products will be marketed as Intel Security.
McAfee expressed his pleasure at the name change, saying, “I am now everlastingly grateful to Intel for freeing me from this terrible association with the worst software on the planet.” The unit was spun out of Intel in April 2017 as McAfee, LLC, as a joint venture between TPG Capital and Intel.
After McAfee Associates
Other business ventures that were founded by McAfee include Tribal Voice, which developed one of the first instant messaging programs, PowWow. In 2000, he invested in and joined the board of directors of Zone Labs, makers of firewall software, prior to its acquisition by Check Point Software in 2003.
In August 2009, The New York Times reported that McAfee’s personal fortune had declined to $4 million from a peak of $100 million, the effect of the financial crisis of 2007–2008 on his investments.
In 2009, McAfee was interviewed in Belize for the CNBC special “The Bubble Decade,” in which it was reported that he had invested in and/or built many mansions in the USA that went unsold when the 2007 global recession hit. The report also discussed his quest to produce plants for possible medicinal uses on his land in Belize.
In February 2010, McAfee started the company QuorumEx, headquartered in Belize, which aimed to produce commercial all-natural antibiotics based on anti-quorum sensing technology. In June 2013, McAfee uploaded the parody video How to Uninstall McAfee Antivirus onto his YouTube channel.
In the video, McAfee criticized McAfee’s antivirus software while snorting white powder and being stroked and undressed by scantily clad women. The video has garnered over 9 million views. McAfee told Reuters that he made the video to ridicule the media’s negative coverage of him.
A spokesman for McAfee Inc. called the video’s statements “ludicrous.” Also in 2013, McAfee started the company Future Tense Central, which aimed to produce a secure computer network device called the D-Central. By 2016 it was also serving as an incubator.
In February 2014, McAfee announced Cognizant, an application for smartphones, which displays information about the permissions of other installed applications. In April 2014, Cognizant was renamed DCentral 1, and an Android version of it was released for free on Google Play.
At the DEF CON conference in Las Vegas, Nevada in August 2014, he warned Americans not to use smartphones, suggesting apps are used to spy on clueless consumers who do not read privacy user agreements. In January 2016, he became the chief evangelist for security startup Everykey.
In February 2016, McAfee received media attention by publicly volunteering to decrypt the iPhone used by the San Bernardino shooters, avoiding the need for Apple to build a backdoor. McAfee later admitted that his claims of how simple cracking the phone were a publicity stunt, though he still claimed he could pull it off.
In May 2016, McAfee was appointed the chief executive chairman and CEO of MGT Capital Investments, a technology holding company. The company initially stated that it would rename itself John McAfee Global Technologies, although this plan was abandoned due to a dispute with Intel over rights to the “McAfee” name.
McAfee changed MGT’s focus from social gaming to cybersecurity, stating in an interview that “anti-virus software is dead, it no longer works,” and that “the new paradigm has to stop the hacker getting in” before they can do damage.
Soon after joining MGT, McAfee claimed that he and his team had exploited a flaw in the Android operating system that allowed him to read encrypted messages from WhatsApp. Gizmodo investigated these claims and reported that McAfee had sent reporters malware-infected phones to make this hack work.
McAfee responded to these accusations, writing, “Of course the phones had malware on them. How that malware got there is the story, which we will release after speaking with Google. It involves a serious flaw in the Android architecture.”
McAfee also moved MGT into mining of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, saying that it was intended both to make money for the company and to increase MGT’s expertise in dealing with blockchains, which he thought was important for cybersecurity.
He has been extremely bullish about bitcoin, writing on Twitter in July 2017 that he predicted that the price of one bitcoin would jump to $500,000 within three years, and “If not, I will eat my own dick on national television.” In November 2017, he increased his prediction to $1 million.
In August 2017, McAfee stepped down as CEO, instead of serving as MGT’s “chief cybersecurity visionary.” In January 2018 he left the company altogether.
Both sides stated that the decision was amicable, with McAfee saying that he wanted to spend all of his time on cryptocurrencies, while the company stated that they were getting pressured by potential investors to disassociate themselves from McAfee. On August 13, 2018, McAfee took the position of CEO with Luxcore, a cryptocurrency company focused on enterprise solutions.
John McAfee Political positions
McAfee identifies as a libertarian, advocating the decriminalization of cannabis and an end to the war on drugs, non-interventionism in foreign policy, and a free market economy that does not redistribute wealth, and he upholds free trade.
McAfee supports abolishing the Transportation Security Administration. McAfee advocates for increased cyber awareness and more action against the threat of cyberwarfare.
McAfee has advocated for religious liberty, saying that business owners should be able to deny service in cases that contradict their religious beliefs, and, “No one is forcing you to buy anything or to choose one person over another. So why should I be forced to do anything if I am not harming you? It’s my choice to sell, your choice to buy.”
2016 presidential campaign
On September 8, 2015, McAfee announced that he would seek the office of President of the United States in the 2016 presidential election, as the candidate of a newly formed political party called the Cyber Party. On December 24, 2015, he re-announced his candidacy bid, saying that he would instead seek the presidential nomination of the Libertarian Party.
On the campaign trail, McAfee consistently polled among the top three presidential candidates for his party with his rivals Gary Johnson and Austin Petersen. The three candidates appeared in the Libertarian Party’s first nationally televised presidential debate on March 29, 2016.
McAfee announced that his vice presidential choice would be the photographer, former commercial real estate broker, and Libertarian activist Judd Weiss.
John McAfee for President
In 2016, he ran for president as a candidate for the Libertarian Party, on a platform including decriminalizing cannabis and moving to a non-interventionist foreign policy.
Also, uniquely among candidates from all major parties, he strongly focused on the cyberwarfare threat and the need to prepare for it—a prescient position, considering the foreign interference in that year’s presidential election. He lost out during the primaries.
Today, he lives in the United States, protected by a bodyguard and usually heavily armed himself. He remains circumspect about his location, sometimes believed to be living in Portland, sometimes in Tennessee. His property in Belize has been seized and his home there burnt down under mysterious circumstances.
John McAfee Endorsements
Adam Kokesh, talk show host, and activist
John Moore, Nevada assemblyman
L. Neil Smith, science fiction author, and activist
Joy Waymire, Libertarian presidential candidate
John McAfee 2020 presidential campaign
McAfee has announced plans to run for president in the 2020 presidential election. His primary platform is to promote the use of cryptocurrencies. He stated that he will either again seek the nomination of the Libertarian Party, or form his own party.
John McAfee Views on taxes
McAfee contended that taxes are illegal and has claimed that he has not filed a tax return since 2010. He refers to himself as being a “prime target” of the US Internal Revenue Service.
John McAfee Gringo
Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee is a Showtime documentary film about the portion of John McAfee’s life spent in Belize. The film was directed by Nanette Burstein and premiered on September 24, 2016.
John McAfee Hospitalized
On June 22, 2018, McAfee announced that he had been unconscious and hospitalized for two days at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville, North Carolina, and claimed it was due to malicious tampering of something he ingested. Since December 2018, McAfee has stated several times on Twitter that he has 47 biological children.
John McAfee Crimes
On November 12, 2012, Belize police started a search for McAfee as a “person of interest” in connection to the murder of American expatriate Gregory Viant Faull. Faull was found dead of a gunshot wound on November 11, 2012, at his home on the island of Ambergris Caye, the largest island in Belize.
McAfee has been a candidate for president of the United States and an expatriate living on a remote island in Belize. He’s faked heart attacks in jail to avoid extradition proceedings and been arrested for driving drunk with a loaded weapon. Johnny Depp is slated to play him in an upcoming movie.
John McAfee Antivirus
John McAfee became a multi-millionaire after creating prominent antivirus software and later relocated to Belize. John McAfee was the first major antivirus product on the market, and the market was big. John McAfee was soon a wealthy man. He resigned from his own company in 1994. While at Lockheed someone passed him a copy of the Brain virus.
The brain was the first computer virus for MS-DOS computers and McAfee was intrigued. As he studied the boot-sector virus, he realized that the best way to combat the spread of such programs was by creating other programs to detect and hunt them.
The antivirus program was born. In 1987, McAfee founded his own company to create and distribute antivirus products, McAfee Associates. John McAfee allowed the individual users to simply download the product for free. Companies were charged a licensing fee.
At the time, this new revenue model was seen as slightly insane, but it paid off. By 1989, it was doing so well that he left Lockheed to commit to antivirus work full-time. McAfee was the first major antivirus product on the market, and the market was big. John McAfee was soon a wealthy man. He resigned from his own company in 1994.
John McAfee Legal issues
On April 30, 2012, McAfee’s property in Orange Walk Town, Belize, was raided by the Gang Suppression Unit of the Belize Police Department. At that time, McAfee was in bed with his girlfriend, he said that he was traumatized by the incident.
A GSU press release stated that McAfee was arrested for unlicensed drug manufacturing and possession of an unlicensed weapon. He was released without charge. In 2012, Belize police spokesman Raphael Martinez confirmed that McAfee was neither convicted nor charged, only suspected.
On November 12, 2012, Belize police started a search for McAfee as a “person of interest” in connection to the murder of American expatriate Gregory Viant Faull. Faull was found dead of a gunshot wound on November 11, 2012, at his home on the island of Ambergris Caye, the largest island in Belize.
Faull was a neighbor of McAfee’s. In the November 2012 interview with Wired, McAfee said that he has always been afraid of police who would kill him and refuse their routine questions; he has since evaded the Belizean authorities. Belize’s prime minister Dean Barrow called McAfee “extremely paranoid, even bonkers.”
McAfee fled Belize when he was sought for questioning concerning the murder. The magazine Vice accidentally gave away McAfee’s location at a Guatemalan resort in early December 2012, when a photo taken by one of its journalists accompanying McAfee was posted with the EXIF geolocation metadata still attached.
While in Guatemala, McAfee asked Chad Essley, an American cartoonist and animator, to set up a blog so that McAfee could write about his experience while on the run. McAfee then appeared publicly in Guatemala City, where he attempted to seek political asylum.
On December 5, 2012, McAfee was arrested for illegal entry in Guatemala. Shortly afterward, he was placed under arrest and board to review his plea for asylum was formed. The committee denied his asylum, so he was taken from his holding facility to a detention center in order to await deportation to Belize.
On December 6, 2012, Reuters and ABC News reported that McAfee had two minor heart attacks in a Guatemalan detention center and was hospitalized. McAfee’s lawyer stated that his client had not suffered heart attacks, but had instead suffered from high blood pressure and anxiety attacks.
McAfee later said he had faked the heart attacks while being held in Guatemala, to buy time for his attorney to file a series of appeals that ultimately prevented his deportation to Belize, thus hastening the government’s decision to send him back to the United States.
On December 12, 2012, McAfee was released from detention in Guatemala and deported to the United States. As of January 2014, Belizean police have presented no new accusations, and they have not persisted in seeking McAfee’s imprisonment for any of the crimes of which they accused him.
However, they have auctioned off McAfee’s seized assets, and his home was burned down under suspicious circumstances. On August 2, 2015, McAfee was arrested in Henderson County, Tennessee, on charges of one count of driving under the influence and one count of possession of a firearm while intoxicated.
On November 14, 2018, the Circuit Court in Orlando, Florida refused to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit against McAfee for Faull’s death. In January 2019, McAfee announced that he was on the run from U.S. authorities and living internationally on a boat following the convening of a Grand Jury to indict him, his wife, and four of his 2020 Presidential campaign workers on tax-related charges.
The IRS has not independently confirmed the existence of these charges. In July 2019, McAfee and members of his entourage were arrested while his yacht was docked at Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, on suspicion of carrying high-caliber weapons and ammunition. They were held for four days before being released.
John McAfee Movie
Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee is a 2016 American documentary film about the portion of John McAfee’s life spent in Belize. The film was directed by Nanette Burstein and had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2016, before airing on Showtime on September 24, 2016.
John McAfee In the media
Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee is a Showtime Networks documentary about the portion of McAfee’s life spent in Belize. It began airing in September 2016. The documentary covers allegations of both the rape of McAfee’s former business partner, Allison Adonizio, and the murders of Belizean David Middleton and American ex-pat Gregory Faull.
During his interview with Bloomberg’s Pimm Fox and Kathleen Hayes on September 8, 2016, John McAfee claimed that these incidents were fabricated, saying that “Belize is a third-world banana republic and you can go down there and make any story you want if you pay your interviewees, which Showtime did.”
On March 27, 2017, it was announced that Johnny Depp would portray McAfee in a forthcoming film titled King of the Jungle. The film will focus on McAfee’s life in Belize, as he takes a Wired magazine writer on a tour of his compound. Glenn Ficarra and John Requa will direct the film, while Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski will write the script.
In October 2018, it was announced that Michael Keaton would replace Johnny Depp in the key role. On May 12, 2017, McAfee was interviewed on ABC’s 20/20 regarding the alleged murder of his neighbor, Greg Faull. During the hour, Janice McAfee, John’s wife, was also interviewed.
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John McAfee is married to Janice Dyson.
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John McAfee Books
The Secret of the Yamas: A Spiritual Guide to Yoga 2001
Into the Heart of Truth 2001
The Fabric of Self: Meditations on Vanity and Love 2001
Kentucky Politicians 1886
Computer Viruses, Worms, Data Diddlers, Killer Programs, and Other Threats to Your System: What They Are, how They Work, and how to Defend Your PC, Mac, Or Mainframe 1989
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