U.K. security firm Sophos has re-released their Threat Detection Test software, but with a slight tweak to use the new Star Trek’s popularity to its advantage: The software has been translated entirely into the Klingon language.
The updated software, nicknamed Klingon Anti-Virus (KAV), only runs on Windows and is marketed as being the application to use when monitoring subspace transmissions “due to Romulan incursion into the Khitomer system.” Surprisingly, the entire software was translated from English to Klingon by a person, “naHQun,” not a machine. KAV will be available to download for free for the next 18 months, but unlike a full-featured anti-malware software, the free KAV download is just a malware scanner—not actually protection—so it won’t be able to stop viruses from telling your PC that it neH Daq Sop lIj ghupu’. [Klingon Anti-Virus via ComputerWorld]
Landau
May 22, 2009 at 6:57 PM
The most hilarious thing of all is the video they made to demonstrate Klingon Anti-Virus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6XD2zGtvAM
It’s a normal walk-through of the product, but with Klingons singing the YMCA song by The Village People in the background.
It’s possibly the weirdest product demo video I’ve ever seen. So funny.
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