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McAfee Part 1: The Virus

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Jim McAfee's Life Story

In those exhilarating days of the early Internet, McAfee was living in Santa Clara. He'd upload computer programs onto bulletin boards and delve into discussions with people who had logged on from around the world. The Pakistani brain virus was a self-replicating virus that automatically copied onto disks. Jim says it puzzled McAfee; he took it apart, studied it, and figured out how it worked.

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