{"id":975,"date":"2009-05-18T20:40:47","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T00:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=975"},"modified":"2009-05-18T20:43:40","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T00:43:40","slug":"antivirus-coming-to-a-dewi-near-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=975","title":{"rendered":"Antivirus: Coming to a De&#8217;wI&#8217; near you!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sophos.com\/klingon-anti-virus\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/klingon-console.png\" alt=\"Klingon Antivirus\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Capitalizing on the reboot\/sequel of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrek.com\/startrek\/view\/index.html\">Star Trek<\/a> now in theaters, computer security company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sophos.com\/klingon-anti-virus\/\">Sophos has launched Klingon Antivirus<\/a>.  Now, as if cryptic error messages weren&#8217;t enough for the uninitiated, you can have your computer warn you about latest virus threats in Klingon.<\/p>\n<p>To be sure, this product is real, purports to scan and protect against virus threats just like Sophos&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sophos.com\/products\/\">more humanoid-compatible products<\/a>, and will be supported with antivirus updates for 30 days.  According to the release notes however,<a href=\"http:\/\/downloads.sophos.com\/tools\/kav\/readkav_kln.txt\"> there are some caveats including this tidbit<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>  * (CL 43125.8) Klingon Anti-Virus is unable to remove Rogue Nanites from the central core. To remove establish negotiation using Android or system running OS X 10.6 and deposit on nearest uninhabited moon\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nice to know even in the age of interplanetary computer security, Macs still have an advantage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capitalizing on the reboot\/sequel of Star Trek now in theaters, computer security company Sophos has launched Klingon Antivirus. Now, as if cryptic error messages weren&#8217;t enough for the uninitiated, you can have your computer warn you about latest virus threats in Klingon. To be sure, this product is real, purports to scan and protect against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[39,111,113,112,110,60,114],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits","tag-apple","tag-star-trek","tag-antivirus","tag-computer","tag-lingon","tag-security","tag-sophos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}