John McAfee Goes Full Charlie Sheen in Bizarre Ad Full of Guns, Drugs and Women

Insane self-promotion

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Witness this bizarrely amusing ad for John McAfee's personal blog. If that name sounds familiar, it's because John McAfee is the man who started McAfee anti-virus software. He's also the eccentric millionaire who was accused of murdering his neighbor, which led the media to look into his paranoia, gun obsession, rumored drug habits, multiple nubile girlfriends and the story of how his great white messiah complex played out in the backwoods of Belize. With that in mind, just watch this little viral, in which McAfee tells you how to uninstall the software that made his name, while making fun of all his purported vices—including snorting coke out of a crazy straw before giving up and face planting in the coke pile.

To say that I understand what John McAfee is doing here is to imply that one could ever understand what John McAfee is doing in general, but I'm going to...

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