Figured it would only be a matter of time before someone asked about the “Invisible security bug spray” comment at the top of each page. Didn’t think it would take less than one day.

Here’s the scoop. Its a play on a quote from one of my all time favorite ISP responses to letting them know that one of the IPs within their network is hostile.  Here’s some quotes from their response:

Snip #1:
Hackers are like ants, chasing one away from the picnic table will not protect you from the thousands and thousands in the local ant hill that are still hungry. As soon as you rid yourself of one, you will still have an infinite risk available to you to get scanned or probed again.

Snip #2:
The point of the above statements are, as soon as you’ve had one hacker prosecuted and/or addressed, you’ve only swatted one gnat on a hot & humid summer afternoon. A few seconds to a min later, you will start feeling itchy again because there’s another one biting you.

Granted there is some Zen truth to their commentary (malicious IPs always make me itchy), but what an interesting choice of words. The response then went on to say:

Snip #3:
Firewall logs such as yours will often show the paper trail of the framed computer rather than the hacker itself. The real hacker hasn’t been and normally cannot be detected during those circumstances. We’re looking into the situation but we get dozens, if not hundreds of these a week.

Snip #4:
What you should focus on is not trying to kill every gnat, but rather wear invisible bug spray so that no matter how many of them there are, they cannot find you therefore there is no war. You cannot win the war, all you can do is stay out of it.  The better the firewall you use, the more likely you will remain invisible.

We apologize for any inconvenience but just bear in mind the broader perspective to this.

So there you have it, invisible security bug spray.