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 ...

Coffey also chided Gentoo Linux for posting detailed information on the VirusScan flaw less than nine hours after it alerted McAfee. "It is disappointing that the finder did not follow responsible ...

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 ...

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.