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Hotspot Shield Adds Malware Protection

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Hotspot Shield, the popular free VPN service, recently added malware protection for its users. The new Hotspot Shield function alerts users if they access domains that are known to contain malware. The add-on is available on Windows, Mac and iOS and uses a database of more than 3 million sites. Speaking about the new feature, David [...]

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Ultrasurf 10 – New Release, The Same Tool

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UltraSurf is one of the most popular free tools that enables users to hide their real IP address and bypass Internet censorship. A new version has just been released, but no major changes have been done. It’s the same old software that we all know for years. Ultrareach, the creator of Ultrasurf, has just released a version [...]

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Hotspot Shield Connection Problems? Try this!

Hotspot Shield, probably the most popular free hide IP solution, is very easy to install and to use, but sometimes can’t connect due to unknown reasons. Here is a small tip, proposed by Patrick Soon, that may solve the problem: 1. Install HotSpot Shield 2. When it has finished installing it will try to open the [...]

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How To Remove Hotspot Shield Ads In Firefox

If you use Hotspot Shield often I’m sure you do not appreciate the ads that are displayed at the top of every page you visit. I’m going to present a method to remove Hotspot Shield ads. The following trick works for Firefox 3.6. Firstly, you need to install the Greasemonkey add-on, that is capable of running [...]

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Interview: Listen To David Gorodyansky, The Man Behind Hotspot Shield

Liz Gannes, from GigaOM, spoke to David Gorodyansky, the creator of Hotspot Shield, about the paradox of behavioral targeting to a userbase that explicitly wants to be anonymous and other topics in a 10-minute interview embedded below. Hotspot Shield is a free, ad-supported VPN that people use to protect their browsing privacy and also to access [...]

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SourceForge Blocked Users From Syria, Sudan, Iran, N. Korea & Cuba

One of the biggest sites for open source software developers SourceForge.net blocked Syria, Sudan, Iran, N. Korea & Cuba, as Arab Crunch reports. It seems that the ban was initiated by the US government authorities in order to put the developers from “black list” countries in the dark, not allowing them to contribute to open source [...]

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Chinese Internet users struggling to access free VPNs

A lot of very popular websites were blocked in China in the year 2009. These well known websites include popular sites like Facebook, YouTube and Blogspot, which were used regularly by millions of Chinese internet users. These websites are still blocked, and the Chinese are now scrambling to get a piece of their favourite websites [...]

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The Best Hide IP Software Of 2009 (Poll Results)

Here, at How-to-hide-ip.info, we continually evaluate and propose tools to achieve online anonymity and overcome censorship. The feedback from you, the readers of this blog, is an important part of the process. That is why I wanted to find out what you think was the best hide IP tool of 2009.   In a poll started at the end of 2009, I have listed 20 well know [...]

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How To Order A Nexus One/Google Phone If You Live Outside The US or UK

In the last days, the Internet was invaded by news/tutorials/howtos on the Google Phone (aka Nexus One). It  looks like Nexusmania is on it’s way. Now, if you want to have such a phone and you are leaving outside US, UK, Hong Kong or Singapore you’ll found out that “Nexus One phone is not available in your country“. The good [...]

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Hotspot Shield Attains New Milestone With a Billion Monthly Page Views

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Anchor Free is the creator of the well known Hot Spot Shield, which is one of the most popular and also the world’s first consumer Virtual Private Network, (more popularly known as VPN). Anchor Free had already created history when they launched Hot Spot Shield as the only free Virtual Private Network that secures the [...]

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