On Windows 10 computers it’s called Windows Defender.
But there’s also the Microsoft Security Essentials anti-malware program available as a free download for computers that run older versions of Windows. And by the time he met Cuevas in late 2019, he’d begun his final run from the law.These are mostly downloads from brand names such as Avast, Avira, AVG, and Bitdefender. On the run in Belize, he faced accusations of rape and murder. His fortune seemed to evaporate overnight. He was named in a wrongful death lawsuit. In the 21st century, however, his life began to unravel. By the end of that period, he’d cashed out and turned to rich-guy vanity projects. He largely persuaded the emerging personal-computing industry first to fear holes in its security, then to outsource its defenses to him. In the 1980s and ’90s he was a computing entrepreneur mentioned in some circles in the same breath as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. This was John McAfee, the software pioneer and supposed centimillionaire who, by the time he was sitting in Cuevas’s chair, had been broke and on the run for the better part of a decade. “He never told me who he was,” Cuevas recalls. The guy knew exactly what he wanted: a simple tat across the area just over his right bicep that read “ $WHACKD.” He said it symbolized a desire “to know that I’m alive.” Cuevas and the man chatted amiably for the hour or so the job took. In Cambrils, a beach community on the Spanish Mediterranean coast, Santiago Cuevas had already closed his shop, Scorpio Tattoo, for the 2019 holidays when a pushy customer talked his way in.
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