McAfee, LLC

McAfee, LLC is an American consumer-cybersecurity software company headquartered in San Jose, California. The firm builds online-protection products including antivirus and anti-malware, identity-theft protection, virtual private networks, secure web browsing, password management, scam detection, and parental controls, sold directly to consumers and small businesses and bundled with personal computers and other devices through original-equipment manufacturer partnerships.

The company was founded in 1987 by John McAfee in Santa Clara, California, originally as McAfee Associates, Inc. McAfee was renamed Network Associates, Inc. from 1997 to 2004 following its merger with Network General, then re-adopted the McAfee name. In August 2010 Intel Corporation acquired McAfee for approximately $7.7 billion and in 2014 rebranded the business as Intel Security Group. In 2017 Intel sold a majority stake in the business to TPG Capital and Thoma Bravo, restoring the McAfee name as an independent company. McAfee subsequently went public in October 2020 and was taken private again in March 2022 by an investor group led by Advent International and Permira.