Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee Page #3
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- 2016
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It's called Michelangelo.
It's called Michelangelo.
It's a lowdown work
of sabotage
of computer programs
around the world.
What is a computer virus?
A computer virus, Bryant,
is a program
written by a hacker.
Any computer that it's in,
it activates
and destroys all of the data
in those systems.
John showed his first
signs of savvy,
working with the media.
Able to articulate
a scary story.
This doomsday virus
was about to hit.
The entire research
community agrees,
this is the number one virus.
It is the number one
computer threat.
It's real,
and it's going to happen
on the 6th of March.
The Michelangelo Virus
caused many people
around the world
to download
antivirus software
for the first time.
That's how the money
By 1993, McAfee controlled
67 % of the desktop
antivirus market.
They only had about
20 employees.
Do not stand in doorways.
Stand against
But there were already,
like, $14 million in revenue.
They were printing money.
Excuse me.
It still was a group
of John's original friends
A lot of them didn't have
careers before.
Excuse me.
Gretzky, Tech Support.
John had more, like,
a cult style.
for two and three days.
They would sleep
under their desk
They would sleep
under their desk
to make sure John was happy
with the work they were doing.
Okay, what you need to do
in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file
It was a crazy culture,
that's for sure.
Three of the women
were supposedly witches,
and they would sit
in the conference room
and have, like,
a little chant.
in the morning
with a bottle of Windex
and clean off
Bill Larson's desk.
Because there was
Because there was
You'd get points.
They had a group called
Little Foxes,
where they, um,
would give points
for, uh, having sex
in different spots
of the office.
John being this free spirit,
that made the culture
of the company.
He wasn't the typical
suit and tie guy.
The investors wanted
to take the company
to the next level.
To the next level.
And that was definitely not
John's forte.
They felt like John
couldn't do that
and I think that John
didn't want to do it, either.
They bought John out.
in a way
that most people didn't.
He seemed brilliant
but also paranoid.
He is more sensitive
than, maybe,
the average person
than, maybe,
the average person
to potential threats.
My wife thought it
a little funny
when he came next door,
looking for his wife Judy,
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