Hello Kitty brand antivirus software extricates its own Hello Kitty brand worm

In China, Hello Kitty will play the adorable nurse to your anthropomorphic computer with Hello Kitty brand anti-virus software. Why is the influential feline icon of cute playing Florence Nightingale to your computer? It could be she felt responsible for this particularly nasty strain of digital influenza which carries her likeness.

Hello Kitty Antivirus and Firewall Software [Kitty Hell via Gizmodo]

[#1 posted by Broadband Girl , July 9, 2008 9:23 AM]

Cute, but does it work? Not sure I'd be happy to use the image of Hello Kitty character to cure my compter, as it was the icon used to excute the worm in the first instance. My try it out on my niece's computer first.. better safe than sorry.