From Antivirus King to Fugitive: The John McAfee Story with Jeff Hiller and Leslie Liao | 99
The Big Flop
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🗓️ 4 August 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
John McAfee turned computer security into a fortune, then spent the rest of his life making increasingly questionable life choices. Whether he was running from murder charges, pumping crypto schemes, or tattooing ""WHACKD"" on his arm before his suspicious prison death, McAfee proved that sometimes the most dangerous virus is success itself.
Jeff Hiller and Leslie Liao join Misha to get the download on John McAfee.
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| 0:31.0 | Besties, did I ever tell you that I had a girlfriend? |
| 0:34.5 | Yeah, I was 13. It probably lasted two weeks. But hey, we ended on good terms. And if we hadn't |
| 0:40.9 | dated, I wouldn't have her name as the password to practically every account that I have to this day. |
| 0:47.5 | I probably should have kept that to myself. Well, I'll just get some software protection or something. |
| 0:53.3 | Maybe that McAfee one. Then again, |
| 0:56.4 | the creator of that, John McAfee did do a ton of basalts, lived as a fugitive in Belize, and is |
| 1:02.2 | possibly responsible for the death of two people. You know what? I'll just take my chances. |
| 1:09.3 | My name is John McAfee, founder of the McAfee Antivirus Software Company. |
| 1:14.1 | McAfee is alleged to have earned millions from numerous sources. |
| 1:17.4 | I had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the murder of Gregory Fall. |
| 1:21.2 | I wouldn't be surprised somebody whacked that guy. |
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