{"id":13185,"date":"2011-03-04T15:36:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T06:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=13185"},"modified":"2011-03-04T15:36:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T06:36:39","slug":"kawaii-security-over-30-computer-virus-personified-in-japanese-security-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/kawaii-security-over-30-computer-virus-personified-in-japanese-security-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawaii Security – Over 30 Computer Virus Personified In Japanese Security Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is understandable to make your favorite web services drawn as characters<\/a>, but how about internet viruses?
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\nA Japanese publisher Sansai Books started selling a security book “Kawaii Security”, which enlightens you computer virus history since 1980’s, with over 30 infamous viruses anthropomorphized<\/strong> in cute anime-style characters. Which virus being personified in the book has not been disclosed yet, but I guess good-old pre-Windows Morris Worm, Code Red and Nimda should be in them, Japanese virus Yamada and Kintama as well.<\/del>We got more info from the book author.<\/ins>
\nFor example, MS-Word macro based Mellisa virus since 1999 is personified like this,
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\nThe character doing poll-dance seems from the truth that the virus creator (a male American who was arrested) named this virus after a strip dancer he knew.
\nSome other virus girls icons, Pakistan Brain, Christmas, Klez, Netsky, Code Red, Nimda, Blaster, Sasser, Gambler, etc.
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\nFour anti-security applications are also personified under the authorization of the software vendors. Here is McAfee girl,
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\nAnd F-Secure from Finland,
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\nIt has 5 stories of original security comics,
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\nand CD-ROM of anti-virus trial software Panda Internet Security 2011<\/a>, too.
\nThe book will be available on Amazon Japan and bookstores in Japan on March 14th.
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Kawaii Security<\/a>
\nvia Akiba Keizai Shimbun<\/a><\/p>\n

See Also:<\/h3>\n

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It is understandable to make your favorite web services drawn as characters, but how about internet viruses? A Japanese publisher Sansai Books started selling a security book “Kawaii Security”, which enlightens you computer virus history since 1980’s, with over 30 infamous viruses anthropomorphized in cute anime-style characters. Which virus being personified in the book has… Continue reading Kawaii Security – Over 30 Computer Virus Personified In Japanese Security Book<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,252,473,732,1361,1935,2405,2807,2856,3215,3258],"class_list":["post-13185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan","tag-anthropomorphism","tag-anti-virus","tag-book","tag-computer-virus","tag-girl","tag-kawaii","tag-moe","tag-panda-internet-security","tag-personification","tag-sansai-books","tag-security","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}