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If I am extradited, it is certain that I will spend the rest of my life in prison.

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This is antivirus software creator John McAfee speaking at a Spanish court hearing earlier this month.

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The United States wants to use me as an example.

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But just hours after the High Court authorized his extradition to the U.S., he was found dead in his prison cell in Barcelona.

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The Catalan Justice Department says everything indicates he had taken his own life.

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With his health issues, he only asked that the time he had left in Spain, whether it was long or short, be spent in freedom.

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But the court unfortunately dismissed his request, and here we are.

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The U.S. tech pioneer was arrested at Barcelona Airport in October on a U.S. arrest warrant.

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He'd been evading authorities for years, facing tax evasion and cryptocurrency fraud charges.

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But before that, he was one of Silicon Valley's first software tycoons.

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McAfee worked for companies like NASA and Xero and became a household name when he launched the world's first commercial antivirus software in 1987.

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John McAfee pioneered the antivirus industry full stop.

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You know, he was the guy that really brought it to the masses and brought it to corporate America and in a way infected all of us with his paranoia.

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We're all very scared.

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In 2011, he sold the company and was no longer involved with the business, but still made headlines regularly.

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One of the most publicised was in 2012 when he was arrested and charged with entering Guatemala illegally after Belize police sought to question him over the murder of his neighbour.

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He had faked a heart attack in Guatemala back in 2012 to get out of jail then.

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And so part of me at first thought, oh, is he faking this too to try to get out of the extradition from Spain?

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But now I see that the Spanish government has confirmed it.

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His lawyer says while the 75-year-old still had opportunities to appeal, McAfee could not stand any more time in jail.

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Jordan Butler, ABC News.

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So thank you.

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So thank you.

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What's my name?

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I guess it might be if I did not like Jack York, you bleep.

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I think if he was a kid, All right.

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So I was the first.

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So I was pregnant.