McAfee VirusScan helped to spark a multi-billion dollar industry in the computer world, and was eventually sold to technology giant Intel for more than $7.6bn (£4.7bn). The strange life of John ...

McAfee VirusScan for Mactel 8.0 runs under the Rosetta emulator included with Mac OS X 10.4.4 and later, software that lets programs originally written for the PowerPC processor to execute on the ...

A controversial figure, he came to prominence in the 1980s when his company released the first commercial anti-virus software - McAfee VirusScan - and helped spark a multi-billion dollar industry.

Corporations who kept a feature called 'Scan Processes on Enabled' in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise disabled, as it is by default, were not affected," the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company said in a ...