John McAfee

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John McAfee (born September, 1945) is a software engineer and founder of McAfee. He was one the first people to design anti-virus software. He was born in England and raised in Roanoke, Virginia. He received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Roanoke College in 1967.

While employed by Lockheed in the 1980s, McAfee received a copy of the Pakistani Brain computer virus and began developing software to combat viruses. He distributed anti viral software using the shareware business model. In 1987, he quit Lockheed and founded his anti-virus company McAfee Associates, which he operated from of a house in Northern California.

This company later became Network Associates, a name it retained for seven years until it was renamed McAfee, which remains today as one of the leading anti-virus companies in the world. John McAfee teaches Yoga [1] and has written several books about Yoga [2].

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• NNDB bio
• InfoWorld article: "John McAfee vows Tribal Voice will redefine groupware, build a Web community"
• InformationWeek article: "Zone Labs To Get Funding, New Board Member"
• PCWorld article: "It's Official: Network Associates Becomes McAfee"
• RadSoft.Net Article: "Business strategy, move to Colorado"
• RadSoft.Net Article: "Nothing to sell"
• Books written by John McAfee