7 Concubines and Lots of Cocaine? The Strange, True Life of John McAfee (The Anti-virus Software Guy)

You'd think the multi-millionaire founder of McAfee Anti-Virus would be the kind of guy who is settled down in a mansion somewhere, chuckling to himself every time one of his annoying messages pops up on the corner of your screen. Well, he's not. He's actually lived the most riotous life any eccentric millionaire could possibly lead.

John McAfee grew up in Virginia with an alcoholic father who committed suicide when he was just 15. More Photos and Video after cut....

In college he turned to alcohol and, despite showing promise with his intellect, he became addicted to booze at a pretty young age. His first job was selling magazines door-to-door where he made a bit of cash.

He soon landed a job in the tech industry in the 60s but while working on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, he began dabbling in hard drugs. McAfee would apparently go on day-long LSD trips and was once found hiding behind a bin. Unsurprisingly, he was sacked.

It is suggested McAfee's life then took a turn for the worst and he now believes he lives in one giant hallucination and thinks that he'll one day wake up on his couch in St Louis.
McAfee moved to Silicon Valley in the 70s and spent most of his days snorting cocaine and drinking scotch. After 15 years doing that, he decided to get sober. And in 1983 he managed it before landing a job at Lockheed. Computers were still pretty new at the time and the first computer viruses began hitting PCs in the mid-80s.

That's when he designed software to fight back and founded McAfee Anti-Virus, the company we know, and sort of love, today. Naturally, it made him millions.

In 1994 McAfee decided to resign from the company he'd founded and sold his shares so he could pursue other ventures. Only, those ventures involved some weird sh*t.
He kept a low profile for a little while, working on some personal projects and giving talks to young entrepreneurs, but in the 2000s, he lost a lot of money when the global economic crisis hit.

That's when he moved to Belize. There, he had wanted to get involved in the the world of antibiotics but soon found himself in a whole mess of crap. He lived with seven women, three of which supposedly wanted to kill him, and he returned to abusing drugs, specifically cocaine.

Paranoia set in and he thought he was being watched all the time so he started going to a place called Lover's Bar where he would sit and watch people go in and out. That's all he did for six months as he slowly but surely withdrew from everything else he was doing in Belize.
Then in 2012 he got caught up in a criminal investigation when his neighbour Gregory Faull was shot dead and, due to his history of drug and alcohol abuse, McAfee became the prime suspect. Like any innocent man would do, he fled to Guatemala.

He was eventually arrested after some Vice reporters published pictures of him with GPS coordinates attached to them. Guatemalan police picked him up and he was sent back to the US. In an attempt to clear everything up, he made this crazy parody YouTube video to try and explain what had been going on...

Since then, McAfee has apparently been holed up in Portland, Oregon, where every now and again he blogs about security, privacy and freedom.
And that, lads, is the life and times of John McAfee - the bloke who brought us the most annoying anti-virus software the world has ever known.
Source:theladbible.