McAfee anti-virus software is the creation of John McAfee. He is a British-American software pioneer. McAfee has committed suicide in a Spanish jail on June 23. The 75-year-old lived a life full of controversies. He promoted cryptocurrency, campaigned for US presidential elections and publicly supported drugs.
The computer programmer’s demise came hours after the approval of his extradition. A spanish court has extradited him to the US. He was facing tax evasion charges. The official statement from the authorities read, ‘Everything points to death by suicide’.