I just came across a new release from Sophos antivirus, it is a Klingon version of Sophos anti-virus. I know the new Star trek Movie was just released, and part of me can see how trying to get some Trekkie out there to look at your product, but (really) someone had the nerve to have gone up to a member of management somewhere and said “You know if we translate our software into Klingon we can tap into a seriously underserved part of the market”. Even better is that whoever took that meeting in management agreed.
Sophos doesn’t rank as a top choice for Anti-virus in my opinion, but if your a trekkie (or want to mess with someone who uses a computer and really isn’t into Star Trek, so they wouldn’t have a clue what they were seeing) you can download the software from the Sophos website http://www.sophos.com/klingon-anti-virus/ (http://www NULL.sophos NULL.com/klingon-anti-virus/) .
Next we will have a Tribble.a virus. Beam me up.
From the Klingon website itself:
Why did we translate it into Klingon?
Our routine monitoring of sub-space transmissions alerted Sophos that the loss of the Klingon battlecruiser Klothos was not due to Romulan incursion into the Khitomer system, but a result of trying to remove VBS/PeachyPDF-A from the battle computer using M’swoN’kar after Commander Kor opened an attachment from the system S’cam-419.
Immediately our Product Marketing away team embarked on a mission to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and flog them Network Access Control solutions. Sadly they chose Qo’noS as their first destination and when their severed heads were beamed back to Sophos, the engineering team created this software, not in a spontaneous display of gratitude to the Klingon race (as the Register would have you believe) but to honour their memory.
