Choose your prefixes by default, especially if you name them after someone else’s product.
In this case, SQLite suffered from McAfee starting to use sqlite_ as prefix for temporary files in 2016.
SQLite had been using that prefix for a long time, and properly cleaned up these files during application shutdown.
McAfee didn’t cleanup after themselves which, after a long track record of dissatisfying users – [Wayback/Archive] The McAfee update mess explained | Reuters – wasn’t an incident, didn’t surprise techies, but prompted regular users to blame SQLite, some even tracking down their developers and call harass them.
McAfee apparently was deaf for a warning that then had been present for more than 10 years, as this got changed change in 20040522:
