“McAfee VirusScan helped to spark a multi-billion dollar industry in the computer world, and was eventually sold to technology giant Intel for more than $7.6bn (£4.7bn).”
He died in a Barcelona cell hours after a Spanish court approved his extradition to the US on tax evasion charges. Prosecutors said he skipped four years of tax returns while earning millions from consulting, speaking, crypto and the rights to his own life story. The man who sold the world fear of viruses ended up as one of tech’s strangest cautionary tales.