McAfee settles McAfee lawsuit over McAfee name Virus-fighting tech renegade John McAfee has settled his lawsuit in the US with Intel over his own name. A judge in Manhattan dismissed both the barmy baron's 2016 lawsuit and Intel's countersuit on Wednesday after they announced they had received agreement over how and when McAfee was allowed to use his own name. The full …
Don't name a company after yourself and sell it off. Require that as a condition of having the name, they must keep you on salary at $$$$ every year.
To said companies: Wait until the founders die before doing anything rash, it is a bit easier.
Think what it would be if that company were called "Bill Gates' Software", maybe shortened to "BS".
Don't name a company after yourself and sell it off. Require that as a condition of having the name, they must keep you on salary at $$$$ every year.
There's a right way and a wrong way to name a company after yourself.
(*) Unless it is a humongously large price - like $500mill**.
(**) Tho I guess in 1991, $9mill was a humongously large price for a security firm like McAfee.
Over? With someone like McAfee it will probably never be over. One more wild night with those "nurses" from his video and he will be back for more fees because of another technicality.
Hopefully, his heirs won't be as loopy as he is. Then it will really be all over for John McAfee.
I don't know what they did but it was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute to do my taxes while I f**ked my accountant."
And that folks is the when you should put the crack pipe down and let the fumes dissipate for a while before making any other decisions.OR
Continue full throttle until either the body or the money runs out.
<quote>McAfee himself was partly responsible for damaging his own name-brand, calling the 2013 version of the security suite "the worst software on the planet" in a bizarre NSFW video featuring himself, some strippers, some suspicious nose powder, a handgun, and a PC.</quote>
From what I recall, McAfee was decent software back before Intel purchased it, and their changes made it notorious for being awful & extremely hard to get rid of. John McAfee made the video because he was fed up with people berating him over software he hadn't touched in almost 20 years and insisting he tell them how to remove it.
Personally, I got a kick out of the video — both because I find lunatic antics amusing, and because I remembered having more than one "dammit, am I going to have to clean-install Windows to get rid of this POS?!" moment when trying to purge McAfee (or Norton) from people's systems.
I remember when McAfee was pre-installed as a trial on brand new PCs and people new to computers would assume that it was a good scanner and pay for a license to be safe.
Shortly after their computers would be running slow, with lots of problems.
Then to remove viruses and to fix the problems they would have to take it to a computer geek who would then have to remove said viruses and usually end up removing McAfee too!
Oh, those were the days! We used to have all sorts of "fun" applications pre-installed as trials.
These days we just get new laptops that come pre-installed with uBuntu no trialware (read: junkware) installed. No more fun spending hours removing tons of trial applications from a brand new PC.
Kinda boring in a way. Although, you still end up re-installing the OS to place your own preferred distro instead if your a "power user".
Actually I still recall the days when McAfee the virus scanner was quite a respectable name - yes the OS was DOS 6.22, but still. I have to give it to him - those times did exist. I can't fault the guy for what his software did during the halcyon days of the wavy flag if he was no longer in charge...
"I still recall the days when McAfee the virus scanner was quite a respectable name"
It was trash long before 6.22 - I used to call it Make-A-FEE - separate scanner, cleaner and innoculation packages for $20 each per year
F-prot was $1, all-in-one AND updated for new malware more frequently than McAfee (this was long before Notron branched into AV stuff)
this reminds me of when the record label sued Tom Fogerty for sounding like Tom Fogerty.
I think the McAfee name has tremendous marketing potential. You could sell energy drinks, stripper poles, Bolivian marching powder, automatic weapons and Belizean time shares with it easily...
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