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Part One: John McAfee Is Not Funny Anymore

Behind the Bastards

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What Is McAfee Antivirus?

John McAfee became the world's biggest evangelist of the apocalyptic dangers of computer viruses. By 1990, he was making $5 million a year off of his antivirus business. In 1991, far away from John McAfee in the fabled land of Australia, another antivirus expert named Roger Reordin discovered a unique new virus,. coded to deliver a debilitating injection of code that would wipe out all infected computers.

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