The Browser Condom: Opinion Split

I saw an application being spa - er, advertised on Spywarewarrior.com today and, well, the film "Lost in Translation" springs to mind. Why? Let's just say, the metaphors at work here become increasingly bizarre and, er, vaguely disgusting. If I said the application in question was called the "Browser Condom", you'd probably have a fair idea of what's about to go down (hilarity). From their website:

"we develop this application called Virtual Condom, its a little piece of code that encapsulate your web browser and your email client software like a real condom."

....uh, okay.....I get it, I think. Carry on...

"Just like in life, to protect against viruses, the bets way to do it is just isolated it. We have developed a new technology that runs like a condom."

....mmm, "runs like a condom"? I mean, I'm trying to make sense of this in my head, but it's getting worse. How does something...anything....run like a condom? I guess they mean "work", but when I think of net security, I don't tend to think of rubber johnnies at the best of times, never mind one in action. This is getting worse with every passing second. What we need now is something that conjures up a really barf-inducing mental image....

"Everything you run inside this condom it will remain inside it, nothing can go through this layer."

......yeah, I think that'll do it. Fifteen gallons of mind bleach, Waiter, and let me know when my eyes have rolled back into their sockets.

As for the application itself - well, I couldn't actually get it to do very much so I can't say how good or bad it is. And once again, the odd marketing at work pretty much kills any attempt to take it seriously. I mean, look at the screenshot.

Look at it.

The GUI has a picture of a condom on it.

A condom.

You just don't get that with Spybot Search & Destroy.

The options given are similarly awesome.

Stop Condom, Start Condom, Create New Condom, Run Application Inside Condom.....oh God, stop. Stop it. I can't take any more.

No wait, I just noticed....my Virtual Condom is....is....."idle".

......bwahahahahahahaha.

Part of me screams that this is the greatest thing ever invented, anywhere.

The other part is simultaneously weeping like a baby and snickering in a juvenile fashion, at the fact that someone, somewhere actually sat down and thought this was the best damn idea they'd ever had. You can see some thoughts on the odd marketing of this thing here, where one of the key points is that an IT guy would have a hard time selling this to a female customer.

Please, feel free to play up the raging entendre in that last sentence as much as you like. You filthy dogs.