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John McAfee’s name is a famous one – at least his family name is, for coming up with one of the more popular antivirus programs in the realm of PC computing. It is rather unfortunate that he is currently being sought after by the Belize police in connection with a murder, where American expatriate Gregory Faull is concerned. Faull was shot on Saturday night at his home in San Pedro Town on the island of Ambergris Caye, and Vienne Robinson, assistant superintendent of the San Pedro police department in Belize, informed FoxNews.com that police are hot on the trails of McAfee.

Robinson mentioned, “We are looking for him in connection with the murder. No one has been charged with murder yet. Everyone was scared of McAfee. He was walking around the beach carrying a gun.” We do hope that the police will be able to do their job efficiently and without any obstructions of justice, while folks in Belize recover from this rather painful experience. Let’s keep our fingers crossed that the real culprit will be caught soon – and justice will be swift and fast.

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Most Android malware lives in the margins, away from Google Play and the more reliable app shops. It’s nonetheless a good idea to be on the lookout for rogue code, and McAfee has stepped in with thorough explanations of how one of the most common scamware strains, Android.FakeInstaller, works its sinister ways. The bait is typically a search-optimized fake app market or website; the apps themselves not only present a legitimate-looking front but include dynamic code to stymie any reverse engineering. Woe be to anyone who’s tricked long enough to finish the installation, as the malware often sends text messages to expensive premium phone numbers or links target devices to botnets. The safeguard? McAfee would like you to sign up for its antivirus suite, but you can also keep a good head on your shoulders — stick to trustworthy shops and look for dodgy behavior before anything reaches your device.

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When fall arrives, and you are not part of the 83 million fake Facebook users, chances are you might stumble upon blurred out photos in Facebook. The reason behind this is not that Facebook users have gotten more diligent in blurring out faces of their family members and friends in some of their photos using an image manipulation software, but rather, because this fall is when McAfee will roll out their Social Protection product which allows you to gain more control over just who are able to view photos on your site, in addition to preventing folks from downloading such images for viewing at a different place.

Social Protection for Facebook is a collaboration between Intel and McAfee, where the browser’s plug-in will show off your photos as blurs, at least until your recipients also go ahead and install the plug-in. When they view your pictures using Social Protection, they cannot download or share these pictures, and those who think that they can circumvent this using the classic screenshot technique will be disappointed to know it does not work. I guess the only way would be to use a digital camera, snap a photo of it, and you’re good to go.

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