Security News > 2021 > June > John McAfee dead: Antivirus tycoon killed himself in prison after court OK'd extradition, says lawyer

British-American software tycoon John McAfee was found dead in his cell in a Barcelona prison on Wednesday.

The 75-year-old antivirus baron - who founded McAfee Associates in the 1980s and made a fortune before more or less retiring in the mid-1990s - was being held in Sant Esteve Sesrovires.

A neighbor of McAfee in Belize, was found dead at his home in November 2012.

While on the run from the plod, McAfee was still giving media interviews and at one point claimed he disguised himself as a drunk German tourist and as a burrito seller.

In 2018, McAfee was found liable by a US court for the death of Faull, and ordered to pay $25m to the man's family.

Which had bought the McAfee business, changed the name of the biz, a move McAfee contested and then settled.

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