LGR Tech Tales - McAfee's Wild Ride 

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Since John McAfee has passed on it's probably not a coincidence that this is now trending in my recommended feed!

Where THE HELL is the movie about this man's life?!

And the McAfee saga ends in a wild but somehow not-unexpected manner: questionable suicide in a Spanish prison. Couldn't imagine anything more McAfee-esque.

Because of Mcaffee and my dad's technological stupidity, and my own curiosity, I learned at age 11 how to wipe a drive and fresh install a new os. Thanks Mcaffee

1995 I contracted the DOOM2DEATH virus. Called McAfee and they sent me a free disk with their cleaner for it. Worked and I went back to gaming. Thats my story.

There are now 3 types of people in this comment thread: those from 2015 who watched at release, those from 2021 who just learned of his death, and the combination of the two who need to rewatch this madness.

RIP. Shine on, you crazy diamond.

I'm watching this again in 2021 shortly after John McAfee's death, he really did lead an unusual life.

McAfee may protect you from viruses... _but what protects you from McAfee?_ edit: yes, yes, spanish prison. you all are very funny and smart

You can still sense the abusive childhood trauma he had, through his software.

McAfee didn't uninstall itself.

Man why do I see this in the recommended list now! man passed away in his cell. Legend lives on. RIP McAfee

I WANT TO GET OFF MCAFEE'S WILD RIDE

Hahaha, such a crazy, sad decline. I had no clue he was running for President, though.

Came to say you were a real one McAfee. Now hopefully you can evade those taxes in the sky.

McAfee's wild ride has come to an end. John's license has expired.

This is a TV quality program. Seriously why has no one ever talked about this on a documentary because I feel like I just watched a full hour one. It's entertaining as hell, I learned a lot about virus scanning programs and it's direct and to the point. Not too fast that I can't keep up. The research you do must be extensive as fuck and I appreciate the editing.

Wow! So Mr. McAfee is basically a mix between The Wolf of Wall Street and Big Boss. Amazing story.

Well well well... interesting timing RU-vid algorithm...

McAfee didn't uninstall himself

"I want to get off Mr. MacAfee's Wild Ride!" "Mr. MacAfees Wild Ride is too intense for me!"

Hey you left out when he was in Belize, he surrounded himself with a harem of 16-17 girls!

He allegedly killed himself in prison today. R.I.P. to a man who was truly larger than life and was more free in prison than most people trapped in their daily lives. R.I.P. John. You really left a mark on us.

Conspiracy theory: McAfee intentionally started letti g himself go so his reputation would get his name taken off the software LOL

These Tech Tales are the best history lessons ever and I hated history class in school, not because of the subject matter, history is very interesting but because of how boring and dry our teacher was. There should be computer history as a required class for programmers honestly. Always know where we came from.

He'd charge a fee you say? Why wouldn't he charge a...McAfee?? A HARDY HAR HAR

this certainly is a youtube recommendation

Of all channels of McAfee vids to get recommended, it’s from LGR. Pleasantly surprised. RIP king.

Oh my not those Data Diddlers ( ° ʖ °)

He just needed to make an iron man suit and would have secured his status as awesome

After hearing about his death, i had to come back to this video

RIP John McAfee 18 September 1945 - 23 June 2021 what a guy

Wait....it isn't normal to down bottles of scotch while at work?? I....I gotta go....

LGR (2015): "This crazy John McAfee dude's even running for president! How crazy is that?!" Me, four years later: "dude..."

This video is going to get a new wave of attention. I live close to where he died, and i had no idea he was arrested here, lol. This dude never ceases to surprise.

This is up their with your very best work. An absolute pleasure to watch stuff like this :)

LGR is quickly becoming my favorite weeklyish RU-vid gaming channel.

RIP McAfee, nice recommendation RU-vid

The algorithm is truly sadistic

I actually liked "McAfee" when the guy himself was running it. After he sold the software with his name on it I started to jokingly call it a virus whenever I saw it on someone's machine. John McAfee is definitely a goofy guy, but he knows his stuff. I kind of wish he'd come back to the computer world and start programming again.

I remember when I worked for GNN under AOL in the 90s I would hear of McAfee deleting boot sectors or windows startup files.

Funny this gets recommended now... RIP ya crazy sob.

Rest In Peace king

This was very interesting, thanks for posting. On a side note, these days I wonder why people still use _any_ third party anti-virus programs at all. It seems all of them (at least the free versions) are starting to behave more like viruses, asking you to reinstall after you've uninstalled them, throwing up popups pestering you to upgrade to paid status, and worst of all, silently disabling Defender in Windows 10. (Which may be intended behavior of Windows 10 rather than the fault of the scanner, but I still don't like it.)

Instead of shooting his neighbor...He should've shot Norton.

I'm a big fan on how impartial you are in these tech tales. You state the facts and don't embellish one way or the other, and that's hard to come by. You could have easily put a slant on this and either praised or criticized the man's actions, but instead you simply tell us what happened and why. Nicely done.

... I honestly thought the whole Belize thing was a joke. Nope, it's real. John is a LEGEND.

Your the man LGR all this stuff you talk about is so interesting. Youve definetly earned my patreon contribution! Keep kicking out this badass content cause im almost done binge watching the old ones! Lol

I was going to skip this but then I thought, "Oh wait, LGR makes this sort of thing interesting to watch!"

I honestly thought this was a new video, with the way it popped up on my youtube front page so i was wondering why there was no mention of his death till' i scrolled down and noticed "2015" guess i just missed this video 5 years ago.

I never hear it called Intel security. they still call it McAfee

I could listen your tech tales for hours.

John McAfee is running for president? Damn, he should be right up there with Deez Nuts.

Ah, the video that got me to subscribe! Such a wild ride life has been since then, but it's been great to watch your videos along the way! And as an aside, I still recommend this video to people; the story is just so crazy, it's hard to believe it isn't a movie plot.

Halt and catch fire captured his look at 4:05 perfectly for Joe MacMillan! Thanks for another great video! :D

McAfee is still an industry giant for enterprise security solutions. We use it at my organization. (the one I work for, not my puny RU-vid channel)

“It’s not over yet” 2021 walks out of Spain “it is now”

This is popping up on people's recommendations. LGR should make an update to this.

Feels like there should be an update or an addendum considering McAfee's passing.

Who is here after McAfee's news of death? R.I.P John McAfee, your name will live on crappy bloatware for years to come....

The algorithm had a twisted sense of humor recommending me this after his suicide

This was the video that slapped me in the face to get on Patreon with LGR. Love this guy.

I love these kinds of videos, between this, oddware and reviewing old tech and gamess I played as a kid this is one of my most favorite RU-vid channels. But I do have one problem, I'm running out of LGR videos to watch that I haven't already seen.

Did anyone else get recommended this after his death?

The YT algorithm certainly is something...

Your videos are really excellent sir. Always love the tech tales and oddware.

This recommendation just showed up and I can't help but wonder if this video is some how part of McAfee's rumoured dead man's switch.

How about for the next one you cover Id software or John Carmack since the new Doom is coming out next year.

weird how i got a mcafee ad while watching this hahaha

Getting this recommended now hits different.

McAfee's not dead, he's just updating. Seriously though, what a crazy life. RIP Mr. McAfee.

386 thumbs-up for this! Thank you for making this. The real history of computer software is full of infinitely fascinating stories. Keep up the good work!

After seeing this, it would not surprise me if McAfee actually killed himself just to troll the world.

McAfee Antivirus software has always been known as a major system resource hog. It always ends up using the majority of a computer's resources, with that being the memory. In fact, if you go online there are many websites where people have had to deal with their computers slowing as a result of the aforementioned issue (me included). The major culprit was McAfee's real time scanning which ate up a lot of system resources. Suffice to say, the last time that and the only time I used the McAfee Antivirus software was years ago and I've never intended on using it every again. Thanks for the great video!

Had to come back to this one after that closing chapter that lives up to the legend.

Hey guys, i´ve subtittled the McAfee video to brazillian portuguese hope someone enjoy Cheers

I guess that's one inherent "downside" to anti-virus and anti-malware software, in terms of perception. If it's doing its job well in a non-intrusive way - it'll _appear_ like nothing is happening or being done.

I binged Halt and Catch Fire recently. Having seen this video, I caught the clear inspiration for where one of the characters goes in season 3. I was only slightly disappointed when the character didn't get as crazy as McAfee is. This disappointment was nullified by how good season 4 was. Great show for anyone watching this video or any of LGR's Tech Tales from the '80s and '90s.

He didn't kill himself.

I like that he tried to be Big Boss

"His home was raided, his dog was killed, and his house was burned down" John Wick John McAfee OH S H I T

He protecc, He attacc, but most importantly, he fills of bloatware your Macc.

Ok RU-vid algorithm, I see what you did there 😀

Well, this seems to be blowing up after... certain events.

Rip, the glowies got to him

John McAfee passed away yesterday at 23rd of June 2021, but his legacy shall live on in the millions of computers saved, including mine, from viruses, with the help of his McAfee Antivirus

I am from Belize and I remember the whole crazy story as it was going on and even our local news channels were on the story all the time

RU-vid recommendation: Not now RU-vid recommendation 5 years later after news breaks out on Mcafee's death: N O W

Interesting getting this recommended to me now

Rest in peace

This guy needs his own movie just like Jordan Belfort (Wolf of wall Street)

Someone actually fucking bought me McAfee virus scan for Christmas in '09. I never called them back.

"accused of making a private militarized army in Belize" Ok, so McAfee basically took MGS PeaceWalker too seriously.

Wonder how far I'd have to scroll down these comments to find anything related to whales.

We need part 2, please.

I am now going to call viruses "data diddlers." That is the greatest term I've ever heard.

Interesting story. I'd never realised there was such a big story behind the name. Thanks LGR! McAfee...a piece of software I deteste with a passion. I got a virus a copy years ago which (interestingly) put adverts, of the pop-up and non-pop up variety, on any non-Google owned site. Yet that shitty programm couldn't do a thing. Thus I installed AVG and it solved the problem in minutes, unlike McAfee who refused to do anything other than scans.

Rest in Paradise you magnificent bastard

The tech tales series needs to be brought back