Man who makes Trump look sane - founder of McAfee antivirus now running for US president

You know him for McAfee antivirus, or from fleeing murder and drug 'questions' in Belize - now John McAfee has set his sights on the oval office.

The official announcement will be at midnight tonight.

We will have our official announcement at 6pm Eastern tomorrow

— John McAfee (@officialmcafee) September 8, 2015

McAfee told Wired that he believed that the current government doesn't understand technology - pointing to the hacks of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and Homeland Security as examples of this incompetence.

“It’s clear that the leadership of our country is illiterate on the fundamental technology that supports everything in life for us now, that is cyber science, our smartphones, our military hardware, our communications,” McAfee said.

He was further critical of US security agencies asking IT companies to create backdoors for them to use in their investigations.

“That means allowing hackers easy access to anybody’s data,” he said.

'Bonkers'

McAfee is one of the more colourful figures in the computer business.

In 2012 his property in Orange Walk Town, Belize was raided by Belize's police. He was caught in bed with his then girlfriend, and arrested for unlicensed drug manufacturing and possession of an unlicensed weapon.

He was released without charge, but this wasn't his last run in with the law in Belize.

In November of the same year, the police wanted to talk to him as a 'person of interest' regarding the murder of his neighbour American expatriate Gregory Viant Faull.

He fled the country, fearing that he would be killed by the police.

According to the Telegraph Belize's Prime Minister said at the time,  "I don't want to be unkind to the gentleman, but I believe he is extremely paranoid, even bonkers."

McAfee ended up in Guatemala, where his pleas for political asylum were rejected and he ended up in prison, where he suffered high blood pressure and anxiety attacks.

CNN reported that he said he faked a heart attack to buy his lawyers time in their fight to keep him from being deported to Belize, and hasten Guatemala's decision to send him back to America.

"Our intent is to return to America, if at all possible, and settle down to whatever normal life we can settle down to under the circumstances," he said. "There is no hope for my life if I am ever returned to Belize."

According to WBBJ he was arrested this year in Tennessee on DUI and gun charges.