12.19.12
What’s in a name
John Mcafee is an oil slick of bad publicity, attracting sycophants and the press wherever he goes.
I remarked about two weeks ago that he’d effectively nullified the business p.r. arm of McAfee Associates, for the short term.
Here’s a graph of the “buzz,” on McAfee security vs. the big competitor, Symantec.
Ever since McAfee’s been in the news his gossip rep of his old company has been taking a nose dive.
Anti-virus software makers, it should be noted, have never actually been very popular. So I’m sure this doesn’t mean a lot in the corporate marketwise. But it is amusing.
Eventually McAfee Associates will recover to sub-mediocre parity with Symantec. When photos of John McAfee and and his freshest hookers disappear from the news pages for a bit.