I executed a file and boom, there it was, the infection. Q: What happened when you were 14 with the virus you got on your parents’ PC?Ī: We shared a computer and I think I was downloading some pirated game at the time. The Polish-born Kleczynski - pronounced kla-CHIN-ski - recently talked about how he started his business at such a young age in an interview that was edited for length and clarity. And today, he proudly notes, the San Jose-based cybersecurity firm is making a profit, doubling its annual sales and boasts 141 employees, with positions open for another 40 people. By the time he was 18, he was racking up millions of dollars in sales from his college dorm room with his new company, Malwarebytes. While he was in high school in Bensenville, Illinois, next to Chicago, he taught himself computer programming and learned everything he could about the nefarious world of hackers.
So he set about to understand how something like that could happen and launched his career in one of the tech industry’s hottest areas.
SAN JOSE - At 14, Marcin Kleczynski accidentally downloaded a virus into his parents’ computer, which was supposed to have been protected with anti-virus software.
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