As I wrote a couple of days back, everyone will and should start to use a good VPN service soon. But as luck would have it, there are no good, free (cheap) Virtual Private Network (VPN) services available in India.
In this situation, when I was offered a chance to review Steganos Online Shield 365 (with a complimentary one year subscription free), I jumped at the offer - only some family health issues hindered putting out the review. So here is how Steganos Online Shield 365 stacks up for us. Steganos is a Germany based company founded in 1996 and their software shows both the maturity of years and straight no-nonsense German approach.
Steganos Online Shield 365 is pretty easy to download and install at ~13.5 MB. The installation is a breeze. With the latest version - 1.0.4 - all it needs is one click on the install button.
Switching the VPN on/off is again a simple click on the button in the pop-up flash screen. Here is the unprotected, unencrypted connection shouting my ISP provided dynamic IP to the world.
And here is the encrypted, pry-proof connection spoofing out the IP address of the Steganos server in USA.
The VPN service can also be switched on/off by right clicking the Steganos icon on the taskbar and clicking on the Shield on/off options. The same popup also provides a quick, easy way to switch between the Steganos servers (exit nodes) in 5 different countries -Switzerland, France, UK, USA and Germany itself.
BTW I can’t understand why the countries appear is that specific order - they are certainly not in alphabetic order, even in German language: no way Schweiz comes before Deutschland.
Disclosure: As above (one year free subscription).
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In this situation, when I was offered a chance to review Steganos Online Shield 365 (with a complimentary one year subscription free), I jumped at the offer - only some family health issues hindered putting out the review. So here is how Steganos Online Shield 365 stacks up for us. Steganos is a Germany based company founded in 1996 and their software shows both the maturity of years and straight no-nonsense German approach.
Steganos Online Shield 365 is pretty easy to download and install at ~13.5 MB. The installation is a breeze. With the latest version - 1.0.4 - all it needs is one click on the install button.
Switching the VPN on/off is again a simple click on the button in the pop-up flash screen. Here is the unprotected, unencrypted connection shouting my ISP provided dynamic IP to the world.
And here is the encrypted, pry-proof connection spoofing out the IP address of the Steganos server in USA.
The VPN service can also be switched on/off by right clicking the Steganos icon on the taskbar and clicking on the Shield on/off options. The same popup also provides a quick, easy way to switch between the Steganos servers (exit nodes) in 5 different countries -Switzerland, France, UK, USA and Germany itself.
BTW I can’t understand why the countries appear is that specific order - they are certainly not in alphabetic order, even in German language: no way Schweiz comes before Deutschland.
Disclosure: As above (one year free subscription).
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