Instructions: So you're already familiar with the inconvenience and frustration of antivirus. But what would it be like to have the cause of these problems - blacklisting - applied to all the other parts of our lives? Share your fun ideas in the submission form.

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  1. Antivirus is like the TSA -- It inconveniences everyone and the bad guys still get through! [Rating: +49]

  2. Planet Antivirus Challenge: Hey RSA! Please stop using a whitelist of registered attendees and start using the more inconvenient approach of blacklisting everyone on Earth NOT allowed into the conference! 6.8 billion, 6.8 billion and one, 6.8 billion and two... [Rating: +44]

  3. Parents on Planet Antivirus are thrilled when their children come home with a D average on their report card. [Rating: +35]

  4. In airports all across Planet Antivirus, the terminal displays only show destinations at which flights will not be arriving. [Rating: +35]

  5. History was made today at Planet Antivirus' Winter Olympics... A figure skater scored the first ever perfect 6.0! [Rating: +35]

  6. "Whack-a-Mole" is the National Pastime of all Planet Antivirus countries! [Rating: +34]

  7. On Planet Antivirus, you are only a criminal if they know your name... [Rating: +33]

  8. Websites on Planet Antivirus go up in 60% of the time they need and as a result may only work as intended 60% of the time. Webmasters may also only get 60% of the sleep they need and be about 40% ready to collapse from exhaustion. Please bear with us as we resuscitate certain members of the team and/or iron things out. [Rating: +31]

  9. Pants on the ground! Pants on the ground! Dang antivirus belt has me lookin' like a fool with my pants on the ground! [Rating: +31]

  10. Planet AV Global threat report - stuck on Code Red and loving it! [Rating: +31]

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On Planet Antivirus, Intel buys McAfee to keep blacklisting alive; fear drop in processing power if whitelisting wins…

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On Planet Antivirus, “security fail” is redundant… (www.securityfail.com)

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1 out of ten computers on Planet Antivirus do not work because the signature updates quarantined critical operating systems files.

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Planet Antivirus Challenge:

Planet Antivirus challenges other AV companies to join McAfee’s Earth Day efforts by shutting down more energy-hungry PCs!

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Today, antivirus solutions have NO performance impacts and catch ALL the threats!!! (April Fools’ Day exists on Planet AV too…)

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Overheard on Planet Antivirus: “Know what the second core in a CPU is really for? To run A/V. :)

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*Still* working on my Planet AV “March Madness” bracket… It is taking *forever* to list all the teams that are NOT going to win…

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On Planet AV, you have to tell iTunes all the music you DON’T want it to charge on your credit card.

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Secret Service computers only work 36% of the time…

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Stopping bad guys, golf and sex… three things you don’t have to be good at to enjoy on Planet Antivirus!

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Plushenko wins the gold!!!

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The most popular t-shirts and bumper stickers say “Please wait, performing system scan.”

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Everything happens in the background. And must be scheduled. And requires an annual subscription. And…

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Planet Antivirus — the worst place to apply for a loan. It takes forever to process it, and you can’t get anything else done while you are waiting.

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On Planet Antivirus tickets are sold to all the people not allowed into the show.

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Everyday is a perfect zero-day here on Planet Antivirus.

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On Planet Antivirus, your mileage is 24 MPG. Or maybe 14 MPG. Or maybe somewhere in between…

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Rating: +28

Overheard in a Planet Antivirus bowling alley: “I just bowled a perfect 180!!!

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My bladder control is 60% effective because I have a going problem…

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PlanetAV: where fences have 60 sections for every 100 posts…

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“Whack-a-Mole” is the National Pastime of all Planet Antivirus countries!

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On Planet Antivirus, Coding Cowboys ship a 60% complete product. Customers help us identify the remaining 40% we didn’t have time to do or think about…

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On Planet Antivirus, you are only a criminal if they know your name…

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Rating: +33

On Plant Antivirus, coffee filters keep 60% of the grounds out of your cup…

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Rating: +20

On Planet Antivirus, you cannot open the refrigerator door until the ice machine fills the tray…

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Rating: +27

History was made today at Planet Antivirus’ Winter Olympics… A figure skater scored the first ever perfect 6.0!

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In a rare case where life on Planet Antivirus is better than on Earth, Planet AV’s politicians only lie 60% of the time…

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On Planet Antivirus, birth control only works 60% of the time…

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Malnutrition is rampant on Planet Antivirus

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Parents on Planet Antivirus are thrilled when their children come home with a D average on their report card.

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You know those waiters and waitresses at restaurants that can remember everyones’ orders without writing them down? Ya well you won’t find those on Planet Antivirus.

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it rains…

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Planet Antivirus Challenge:

Hey RSA! Please stop using a whitelist of registered attendees and start using the more inconvenient approach of blacklisting everyone on Earth NOT allowed into the conference! 6.8 billion, 6.8 billion and one, 6.8 billion and two…

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Rating: +44

On Planet Antivirus only 40% of the milk is bad.

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Planet AV Global threat report – stuck on Code Red and loving it!

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Seen in a shop window on Planet Anvitirus: We recognize that there is nothing wrong with being wrong, even when being wrong costs our customers money.

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Today, Planet Antivirus can completely relate to our antivirus namesakes… our voting plugin is only working in approx. 50% of the browsers! Please keep trying or come back to vote a bit later (kinda like waiting for blacklist scans…)

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Websites on Planet Antivirus go up in 60% of the time they need and as a result may only work as intended 60% of the time. Webmasters may also only get 60% of the sleep they need and be about 40% ready to collapse from exhaustion. Please bear with us as we resuscitate certain members of the team and/or iron things out.

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Rating: +31

Planet Antivirus Challenge:

Hey, American Idol! List everyone in the world *NOT* going to Hollywood!

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Mini Me came from Planet Antivirus… and he arrived just a little late.

*raises pinky finger to corner of mouth*

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Dear Santa, I have been good this year! Here is my list of every present in the world that I do *not* want…

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Pants on the ground! Pants on the ground! Dang antivirus belt has me lookin’ like a fool with my pants on the ground!

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4 out of 10 bungee jumpers on Planet Antivirus regret their most recent decisions.

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In airports all across Planet Antivirus, the terminal displays only show destinations at which flights will not be arriving.

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“With the 4th pick of the Planet Antivirus NFL draft, the New Yolk Giants will *not* be taking the following million football players… [list omitted in order to preserve our valued readers as valued readers]“

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Swiss is the only cheese on Planet Antivirus!

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Ah, beautiful Planet Antivirus, where your glass is always half full!

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Umbrellas on Planet Antivirus stop 40% of the rain!

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40% approval is actually pretty good!

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On Planet Antivirus, a bad guy can sneak by if his name is spelled wrong by the State Department. Hmmmmmmm, now why does that sound so familiar…

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Rating: +30