Who was John McAfee of Netflix's new documentary Running With The Devil?

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A new Netflix documentary premiered yesterday (August 24) about the bizarre life story of McAfee Anti-Virus software creator John McAfee. The feature-length documentary called Running With The Devil: The Wild World of John McAfee shows hours of unseen footage of an increasingly paranoid man on the run.

Based on true events, the former presidential candidate goes into hiding in Guatemala after being implicated in the murder of his neighbour in Belize in 2012. After evading the US authorities, McAfee, 75, was discovered hanged in a Spanish police cell 2021 whilst facing extradition for ten counts of tax evasion and seven counts of fraud in the US.

The Netflix TV show delves deep into the life of the outlandish tech mogul throwing up many conspiracies theories along the way. These include murdering his own father and faking his own death.

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Here at the MEN, we took a look at some of the highlights of the tumultuous life of Silicon Valley pioneer John McAfee.

The tycoon was born in Gloucestershire in 1945 however his parents moved home to Virginia in the United States when he was young. McAfee had a turbulent relationship with his father who was described as an "abusive alcoholic" and used to beat him regularly.

His father killed himself with a gun when McAfee was just 15. McAfee was married three times and Tweeted in 2010 that he estimated he had 47 children.

After working for companies such as NASA and Xerox, McAfee went on to create the first commercial anti-virus software in 1987. One of the most widely used anti-virus software programmes on Windows PCs he created pioneering cyber security code to protect computers from the first