John McAfee, the antivirus software pioneer , died by suicide in his jail cell on June 23. He was declared dead by the jail’s medical time , after they tried to revive him. He was arrested in October,2020 while boarding for a flight to Istanbul. He was alleged to have failed to file tax returns from year 2014 to 2018. John McAfee was a prominent cryptocurrency promoter , tax opponent , US presidential candidate and fugitive. Before launching the world’s first commercial anti-virus in the year of 1987, he worked for NASA , Xerox and Lockheed Martin.
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