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Ha ha so funny.Quote
How do I know about Satoshi?
Yes, I drink, use drugs, chase women, run from the law - which I have done since I was 19. But it does not obviate the fact that I created a great company whose focus was stopping hackers. I had to know hacking. I am still John Fucking McAfee,
...Yes, I drink, use drugs, chase women, run from the law - which I have done since I was 19. But it does not obviate the fact that I created a great company whose focus was stopping hackers. I had to know hacking. I am still John Fucking McAfee,
His company's focus was to make money, not to stop hackers.
That's why the anti-virus software doesn't stop all viruses, it ONLY stops known viruses.
By his design he made it so that he would have a continuous stream of money coming in - you need all the updates all the time.
I've no idea why some people think anything positive about him.
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McAfee’s VirusScan was one of the first antivirus programs, but the initial version simply scanned files and the boot sector for known byte-strings of viruses — essentially doing a binary version of the Unix “grep” utility, which dates back to 1974.
The same year that McAfee released VirusScan, the first two heuristic antiviruses were released; four years later, F-PROT released the first modern heuristic engine.
The same year that McAfee released VirusScan, the first two heuristic antiviruses were released; four years later, F-PROT released the first modern heuristic engine.
So not only did he create one of the first anti-virus programs, he actually did the opposite of what you said and tried to make it detect viruses that they didn't know the signatures/checksums for.
Edit: Misread the quote, he may not have pioneered heuristics for AV but McAfee AV and almost all modern AV these days have such things - which obviously are not fool proof.
