John McAfee Claims He's Innocent of Neighbour's Murder (claims they were trying to kill him)

International Business Times ^ | 11/13 | huysman

[RummyChick]

where is Michael Westin when you need him.

Here is the Wired story.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/11/threatlevel_1112_mcafee/

[nuconvert]

From the one pic of him that I saw, he looks very tightly strung

[donozark]

This guy is starting to remind me of Johnny DuPont. A high tech version.

[RummyChick]

The picture with the gun??

Interesting that he says he has no plans to leave Belize even though they are out to get him.

Given that he sold his company for 7 billion dollars..he could hire mercenaries to protect him while living in a foreign country.

[Morris70]

Maybe he thought the other guy was malware.
Couldn’t he quarantine him then do research.

[brownsfan]

His crappy software has killed countless PCs.

[oh8eleven]

He said he was innocent and that he hid under the sand while the police searched his property.
Ahh, sounds like the old hiding under the sand trick.

[Red Badger]

Maybe he had a virus................

[nuconvert]

No, not that one.
Yahoo ran what looked like a more recent photo of him where he wasn’t wearing sunglasses

[Gaffer]

With all the trouble I’ve had with McAfee slowing up my computer and hanging it up in the past, I’d like to see him get strung up.

[NativeSon]

from that pic of him in the article, he looks like the unholy ‘love child’ of John F’n Kerry & Frank Zappa...

[John S Mosby]

Dude lost his ass when Lehman crashed. McAfee is passe in antivirus cooperatives (even freeware is better). He spends his time high on bath salts or says he is investigating new compounds (right,he’s a pharmacologist, too).

He is simply, insane. Mephedrone and other cathinones are his thing now— bath salts, paranoia and murderous behaviour. He will be found dead one day by one of his own kind’s or his own hand. Que Sera.

[Uncle Chip]

While many neighbours complained about the dogs, which barked whenever people walk past on the beach, McAfee does not believe any of them could be behind the poisoning, blaming the local authorities instead. In an email he wrote to Wired on Friday night, McAfee noted some men had arrived on the island in the night and shortly after the dogs had been poisoned.

Is he saying that some men poisoned his dogs to silence them so that they wouldn't bark when they went to kill his neighbor???

[Hardraade]

Probably someone who bought his antivirus.

[Moltke]

Given that he sold his company for 7 billion dollars..he could hire mercenaries to protect him while living in a foreign country.

LOL. At least the thread-starter should read the article to the end!

"McAfee sold his stake in the company he founded in the 90s' for $100m, to then reportedly lose large part of the sum in the financial crisis."

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

I was reading about this nut last night. He reminded me a lot of Phil Spector the music producer. Made a ton of money then went into hiding spending all his time doing drugs then killed someone.

[Hardraade]

John was always a crook, of the worst kind. Started out as a scammer. Remained a scammer.

[unlearner]

The locals are up in arms because this very wealthy American uses his wealth to sexually exploit underage girls. But he has a bigger problem.

Because of his wealth, he has been the target of many violent criminals. His solution has been to hire them as security consultants - convincing them they will be wealthier and safer by taking his offer. That is after all, following the legacy of his software empire, the hacker’s approach. What could possibly go wrong?

Unless what I have been reading about him is merely a smear campaign by his enemies, he seems to be descending into madness.

[Arthur McGowan]

McAfee clogged up, and nearly destroyed, this computer. And the only way I got any attention from the company was to start e-mailing, dozens of times, every address I could find.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

He'll keep plugging away.