Never liked the AV, but he was quite a character.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57589822

Wow, what a sad ending.

RIP. He was a good guy.

? More like loon from all the wild shit I've read about him over the years.

Press F to the tribal tattoo warrior.

An honest loon, at least :P.

Let's not forget...

IMO he was a fraud, starting an industry of frauds.

Still, a sad fate. Poor sod, in the end.

You mean anti-virus programmes are a fraud in general?

The actual devs? No. I think they do the best they can. And it's really an amazing field. After all you have to think like the bad guy to anticipate the moves, it involves AI and machine learning. Fascinating stuff.

But the managers and PR people are snake oil sellers. They sell a false sense of security. Like gun sellers perfectly knowing you'll more likely hurt yourself than warding off any intruders.

The industry finances actual security research, that's the best thing about it. But it mostly sells guns, that are more of a danger to the users than any culprit, that's the problem.

There is a difference between what media tells you and wants you to believe to be true,and then, there is the person in question, and the words and actions he/she says/makes.

The only sad thing i find with this is that covid never got him... that would of been delicious irony.

Always true. Media is about "stories". Facts often only can be condensed from sufficiently many different story-tellers.
Um... What?

-1 (times 1000. if I could)

I don't know, I've actually got McAfee Total protection and find it useful as a warning against potentially dangerous websites. But yeah, a sense of total security would certainly be misguided.

It's called "Total Protection", no?

And we both are pretty computer savvy people, I guess... knowing how far to trust a label...

But most people?

At the same time people of McAfee, Kaspersky, F-Secure always have made valuable contributions to security research... It's not an easy topic. But I do think that Mr McAfee himself was mostly a businessman out for his own bank account, and not paragon of mankind. His death doesn't change that, but I don't think it was deserved in any way anyways. He might have been a fraud, but he's no mass-murderer.

What the BBC fails to mention are McAfee's most recent tweets (which can be read online) and his very public insistence the he would never take his own life... very important elements when looking holistically at the story.