Kaspersky launches a range of perfumes to, er, defend your odour

Hot on the heels-emblazoned-with-Eugene's-face, Kaspersky has only gone and sent El Reg a range of branded toiletries, presumably meaning to imply we could brush up on personal hygiene. Well, we quite like our powerful and distinct olfactory identity, which of course is what we use to attract our vulture brethren, but we …

[Phil O'Sophical]

Fear awakens our senses

I eau T ?

[Alexander J. Martin]

Re: Fear awakens our senses

A beer token for that. We are chuckled.

[Fraggle850]

Re: Fear awakens our senses

Thumbs up but I wouldn't wear it, I gather that I eau T security is somewhat malodorous

[Midnight]

Re: Fear awakens our senses

Remember, the "S" in "IoT" stands for security.

[DailyLlama]

I smell a rat...

[MrDamage]

Eau de RAT, surely.

[Anonymous Coward]

eau...

shit...

[A. Coatsworth]

"Phish" what a great name for a perfume...

Feel confident every day, smelling of Phish in the office! Let your Phishy musk lead others to you!

[Anonymous Coward]

As someone partial to a bit of used packet-sniffing, Phishy musk sounds right up my street.

[smudge]

Has to be advertised using the old Blind Boy Fuller song "What's That Smell Like Fish?"!

Paris because she's trying to figure out the answer.

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe McAfee could do one in honour of their founder.

Then again I don't think anyone's interested in the odour of crazy, drugs and disappointment.

[Throatwarbler Mangrove]

I beg to differ

"I don't think anyone's interested in the odour of crazy, drugs and disappointment."

The dating histories of many of my friends would tend to contradict that statement. Deliberately not using the "Joke Alert!" icon.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: I beg to differ

Whatever McAfee smells like it obviously works, wasn't there a picture of him a while back surrounded by young ladeez?

[Fraggle850]

Smart move on Kaspersky's part

Seeing as how the CIA reckon his AV products are easily breached (at least if the latest Wikileaks dump is to be believed), might be time to move into a different sector

[julian.smith]

Re: Smart move on Kaspersky's part

Perhaps you need to actually read the Wikileaks dump or credible reports.

I found references to two exploits:

- one fixed "long ago"

- the other fixed in 2015

Over

[swschrad]

uh, folks, you DO realize it's a marketing stunt, right?

I doubt this is going to the counter at Macy's or Walgreens. although, maybe Fry's....

[John Savard]

This Article Made Me Look at My Calendar

And, amazingly, it wasn't April 1st.

[CrazyOldCatMan]

Re: This Article Made Me Look at My Calendar

T'was my first thought too.

The second was about how astute they were to get free advertising..