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US tycoon McAfee found dead in Spanish prison[^]
I suspect he was just trying to uninstall himself ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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And yet he managed to avoid the Virus
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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Another sad story of someone who had it all, did lots of drugs, lost their mind, committed crimes, suicided.
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Indeed - sad though someone killing themselves 
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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With every spark of genius comes a touch of madness.
The less you need, the more you have.
Why is there a "Highway to Hell" and only a "Stairway to Heaven"? A prediction of the expected traffic load?
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Gosh - I feel like a lightening bolt.
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His instagram account was still posting after he was found dead.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Not uncommon in social media from what I've read.
A former high school classmate of mine passed away about five years ago. Her kids still post things on her Facebook account occasionally, which seems... odd.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I won't bear comment on what was posted but it was ... yeah... anyone that wants to know can google for more.
Real programmers use butterflies
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yeah, and there is a Tweet that he wrote in OCT 2020 saying that if he died in prison, it was not a suicide. real tweet, apparently. people can google it if interested.
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I'm not ready to ascribe that to anything other than a twist of fate smacking a guy right between the eyes. McAfee was the type of person to say something like that for attention. It doesn't make me think he didn't commit suicide. In fact, if I were the sort, and in his shoes, I might consider the suicide in light of that tweet as an opportunity to make myself more infamous in death.
I'm not putting the latest posthumous post him either though.
But it is curious. All of it.
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: But it is curious. All of it.
Indeed.
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I realize Mr. McAfee hasn't had anything to do with the company that bears his name in a long time. That said...
The McAfee enterprise products are a source of continuing aggravation for me at work. The "Adaptive Threat Protection" feature watches writes to files that are or may be executable, and quarantines them. Any compilation process is therefore prone to failure. The ATP service(s) lock the files they are analyzing and fail to release the locks in a timely fashion. The most common failure is when Visual Studio is embedding a manifest resource in an executable. The failure is timing dependent, so hitting "Build solution" again usually fixes it. The worst failure involved Inno Setup, however. In one case during an Inno Setup compile ATP terminated the Inno Setup compile process and ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing deleted every single file that process had open, including the source scripts that were being compiled. Since I hadn't checked these files in for over an hour, I lost an hour's worth of work. Our corporate IT has not been helpful.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I have not seen McAfee used, at all, since 2012(ish). I honestly did not know it was still a thing.
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Consider yourself lucky. I've not been able to convince the corporate IT yabbos to disable this crap on my machine. They've "adjusted my profile" and "assigned me to a low-risk user group" and other sorts of things, none of which have had a long-lasting and reliable effect.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Count your blessings! McAfee is more of a virus than the viruses it supposedly protects us from.
In my section about every 6 months it goes crazy for 1 person, consuming 90%+ of the CPU for a 3 hour scan every morning. Desktop suppport's solution: uninstall and reinstall McAfee. But no one knows the cause ...
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I seem to recall that he repudiated what it had become, along with other things.
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I never used his version of the software. The current version probably has little or no relation to the code he wrote long ago.
Software Zen: delete this;
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He posted a video titled "How to uninstall McAfee Antivirus". It isn't kid sister safe, but it is funny.
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I can relate too good  
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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I was hoping that it was the company that had folded. He was a sad example of how wealth can destroy a man.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I guess he got Epsteined.
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The domain seems to be available.
CovidProject with the tag line "for those who vaccinate" and have a Bob in a nurse uniform.
Chris should buy it and move all the covid "me too" posts there.
(half-serious and probably too late ) he should do it and get a few Ontario MDs and health officials to participate; I'm certain you can get a grant from the Province or the Federal government.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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sounds like one big nightmare to me.
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