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[What's Burning?]

As Belizean police combed the property of expat antivirus pioneer John McAfee Sunday afternoon, McAfee was closer than they could have known. He’d seen them coming, and says he hid — burying himself in the sand with a cardboard box over his head so he could breathe. “It was extraordinarily uncomfortable,” he says, in an exclusive interview with Wired. “But they will kill me if they find me.”

McAfee, 67, is the prime suspect in a murder discovered Sunday morning in Belize. Convinced that he’ll be killed if he’s taken into custody for questioning, the millionaire antivirus pioneer has gone into hiding somewhere in the Central American nation, where he moved in 2008 to retire. Starting at 10:30 this morning, Belize time, he has been calling to tell me his side of the story.

The homicide victim is McAfee’s neighbor, Gregory Faull, a 52-year-old American expatriate, who, like McAfee, lives on Ambergris Caye, an island off the coast of Belize. According to police, Faull was found face up in a pool of blood with a single gunshot wound to the back of his head. Authorities found a single Luger brand 9mm expended shell at the scene.

I've been keeping an eye on this for the last couple of days... filed in the "truth is stranger than fiction" folder.

Full Story at Wired

[Nin-Chin]

I have McAfee.......

[vlad]

MURDERER!!!

[myownalias]

I had McAffe; came preinstalled on my system, it murdered system resources, so I killed it!

[What's Burning?]

I have to support one of their products for a customer as part of my job role and believe me the murder jokes just keep going.

[Jabberwocky]

McAfee, it kills your computer!

Luck I use AVG free

[myownalias]

I have to support one of their products for a customer as part of my job role and believe me the murder jokes just keep going.

Every time I see someone using McAffe or Norton, I advise them to use AVG Free, the protection is just as good; doesn't use anywhere near as many resources and it's FREE, no more subscriptions!

[andrew]

Avast was good but their latest version seems to be a bit of a no no. Microsoft Essentials seems ok.

[What's Burning?]

I have to support one of their products for a customer as part of my job role and believe me the murder jokes just keep going.

Every time I see someone using McAffe or Norton, I advise them to use AVG Free, the protection is just as good; doesn't use anywhere near as many resources and it's FREE, no more subscriptions!

This isn't anti virus, it's mobile device management software, but it's still been a pain for the customer and they're ditching it but they're on a contract and have to make it livable until August of next year.

Personal anti virus, the freebie from Microsoft and some common sense has kept me pretty much trouble free for a couple of years now.

[acosmichippo]

Yeah, Microsoft Security Essentials is great and not nearly as annoying as other free options like AVG or Avast.

Other tips: keep java, flash, and adobe reader up-to-date, and install an adblocker in your browser.

[racechick]

I don't think I do any of these things. ......my laptop may have some residual protection of some sort left form when it was set up. Sometimes I get upgrade reminders, but I don't always trust them, in case they try to sneak something nasty onto my computer, so I ignore them or tick remind me later. I spend a lot of time ticking 'remind me later'. You can't beat delaying a decision till later. My iPad? Does that do its own anti nasty things stuff?

[acosmichippo]

Your iPad doesn't need it. So far, Windows is pretty much the only system you need to worry about bad stuff. But that could change gradually.

[racechick]

that's good news.

[Jabberwocky]

I have heard that if they catch him the trial will last 30 days

[LRW]

I have heard that if they catch him the trial will last 30 days