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Wednesday, 1 May 2013
IPVanish - Protect Your Online Identity and Data
Posted by Unknown on 05:35
 | Protect Your Online Identity and Data A VPN service is extremely valuable in protecting your online identity and data. While software such as anti-virus and firewalls protect and secure the data on your computer, a VPN service ensures that data will be protected when transferring it. For instance, if you have a cloud back up service and you want to access your files using a coffee house Wi-Fi hotspot, it's critical to have a VPN secure that transfer. |
Control Your IP's Location
Every connection to the internet comes with a unique number, called an IP Address. It's your tattoo or signature when you travel the internet.
This IP address IS used for tracking purposes on every site you visit. It can also reveal your physical location and plenty of other information about you, such as your ISP or connection type. As you browse the web, your actions are tracked by every site, every search engine, and even your ISP. Once this information is on someone else's computer, you should assume this information is kept about you forever.
Take a look right now!
Just like our name says, IPVanish VPN service prevents this tracking by issuing you an anonymous IP address that prevents your real IP address from being detected. Nobody can see the real IP address, especially search engines and websites.
Not only has your IP address vanished from view, but you can select a new one from any number of locations. You can switch whenever you want and connect to wherever you want as often as you want. There is no extra cost for switching around. If you are using the IPVanish software, switching only takes a few seconds. You can go from being in the US, to the UK, or to France all within a matter of minutes.
Once you're connected to the IPVanish VPN, you can feel secure knowing that your privacy is protected, your identity is hidden, and your location is selected by you.
 | Manage and Control Your Data Anytime you're connecting to the internet, you're going through someone's service. We all pay for access to the internet and sometimes this access comes with some dark and murky terms and conditions. Even if you do read every line of a terms and conditions statement, you cannot be sure those who give you access to the internet are following them. There have been many cases throughout the world where ISPs, websites, and other providers have disregarded a user's security and privacy. Most access providers and websites are not malicious, nor do they want to steal your data. But what guarantees can they give you that others will not steal it fromthem? IPVanish gives back your control. It allows you to manage your data transfer and it protects you from anyone trying to pry into your personal business. |
Block Unwanted Marketing
We all have heard about the privacy issues with the big search engines and how they keep track of every search you've ever done. For example, see what Google tracks by checking here and here. They tie this information to an IP address as well as to cookies.. They know what you look for and where you are.
Combine your IP address with your cookies and search data and you are a target for anything these sites want to do to you – online OR offline. They will even sell your search data and location data to junk mail marketers if they so choose to.
Have you ever searched on an embarrassing health issue or researched a legal or credit problem? At some point, everyone uses the internet tools available to them to look up more information on sensitive subjects. It's not avoidable.
If these searches are tied to your IP, there is the very real chance that not only can your online privacy be lost, but your offline privacy as well. Internet searches are far from the private communication most of us take them for.
IPVanish helps keep your online searches private. While your IPVanish connection is active your true IP address is hidden away behind the IPVanish IP address you choose to show. With IPVanish you can take control over what you let these search engines know about you.
 | Protect Yourself at Wi-Fi Hotspots Whenever you use a public Wi-Fi Hotspot, you're entering into a traffic stream that is appallingly insecure. All of your data is being broadcast like a radio transmission, usually without any security measures at all. Think of all the things you do online: email, chat, purchasing products, cloud computing, banking, you name it. Have you done any of these things from an airport or a coffee shop? This data can be accessed by nearly anyone. Freely and easily obtainable programs that even a 5th grader can use will expose your usernames and passwords to sites like Facebook and Yahoo when online via Wi-Fi. Given that these criminals don't even need to enter the location and can simply be sitting in their car, Wi-Fi Hotspots can be a hub of illegal activity. However, if you were connected to the IPVanish VPN service, all a criminal would see is unusable junk. Our VPN service encrypts all of your transmissions into an unbreakable stream. |
It's Easy to Setup
With the IPVanish software you're just a few clicks away from a secure connection. No digging through endless settings and obscure menus. Just follow the easy setup steps on our website and you'll be up and running in minutes. In order for you to be secure, you won't need to change your ISP, browser, or applications, and you'll never need to hunt for a slow proxy service ever again. With IPVanish you get the anonymity you need without any hassles.
 | Go Online Safely While Travelling If you're a frequent traveler, you already know the issues that can pop-up when using certain services internationally. Some e-commerce sites will determine transactions as fraud. Some entertainment sites will block international viewing. With an IPVanish VPN connection, you can appear to be surfing from the place of your choice. This means you can define what your online experience will be. When you connect to a hotel network, many of which are wired directly to your PC, other users on that network may have access to your data transmission. Also, many hotels and other public networks are provided through 3rd parties not associated with the hotel or restaurant. If you ever had a security question or issue, it's unlikely you could easily resolve it. With an IPVanish connection you'll have no data transmission security issues to resolve. |
Your VPN Account can Act Like a Virtual Firewall
An IPVanish VPN account can act like a virtual firewall. Most direct attacks on private computers are aimed directly at your IP address. With IPVanish your actual IP is hidden to your attackers. They'll only see the IPVanish IP address, and we have an army of the best engineers in the business dedicated to making sure that our network, and your privacy, remain protected.
 | Personal Use If you use your employer's VPN service, they may be tracking all of your activity. You may be safe from external hackers, but the IT staff inside the network can still see your data. Having your own IPVanish account will ensure safe, private access to the internet as well as keep your employer's resources out of the connection. |
Ipredator VPN Review
Posted by Unknown on 05:34
How it works:
You'll exchange the IP address you get from your ISP for an anonymous IP address.
You get a safe/encrypted connection between your computer and the Internet.
150 SEK for 3 months!
What are the VPN IP Addresses?
Posted by Unknown on 05:33
For those of you who would like to allow or restrict access from VPN users, here are the possible address ranges that VPN users will be using.
169.234.240.100 - 169.234.255.254What are the VPN timeouts and limitations?
Posted by Unknown on 05:33
Timeouts
Once you bring up your VPN client and initiate a connection, you will remain connected as long as you're actively using it. If the connection is idle for one hour, it will "timeout". If you are not going to use your computer, it is best to take down the connection yourself, to free-up a tunnel for someone else to use. In either case, when you later come back to your computer you will need to re-initiate a connection if you still need to use the VPN.
Once you bring up your VPN client and initiate a connection, you will remain connected as long as you're actively using it. If the connection is idle for one hour, it will "timeout". If you are not going to use your computer, it is best to take down the connection yourself, to free-up a tunnel for someone else to use. In either case, when you later come back to your computer you will need to re-initiate a connection if you still need to use the VPN.
Limitations
There is a limit of 2 VPN tunnels which may be simultaneously established under one UCInetID.
There is a limit of 2 VPN tunnels which may be simultaneously established under one UCInetID.
The campus VPN provides off-campus users access to university resources not normally available to remote users and is thus a critical resource. The VPN appliance handles connections for all users through the same 100 Mb interface. Users of bandwidth-intensive applications that are not related to the University's academic mission can detrimentally impact other users on the VPN.
For this reason, Gnutella, Kazaa, Bit Torrent, E-Donkey, and other peer to peer (p2p) file sharing programs (as well as internet gaming and other recreational, high-bandwidth applications) are not allowed on the VPN.
What are VPN Tunnels?
Posted by Unknown on 05:33
UCI has two types of VPN tunnels, a "split" tunnel and a "full" tunnel.
Split Tunnel
The "split" tunnel only sends traffic destined for UCI over the VPN connection. All other traffic goes through your normal cable modem/dsl connection.
The "split" tunnel only sends traffic destined for UCI over the VPN connection. All other traffic goes through your normal cable modem/dsl connection.
Use the "split" tunnel for connections to and from UCI only. If you are using online Library resources, use the "full" tunnel.
It allows you to talk directly to the Internet, but when your machine "talks" to UCI network addresses the traffic is put through the established VPN tunnel to the UCI VPN node, where it is decrypted and given a UCInet network address.
This is useful for people who need access to things at UCI which require a UCInet IP address (such as connecting to a system that restricts access to UCI hosts only), or to use services which are blocked for security reasons at the campus firewall (such as NetBIOS ports, used in mounting shared drives and other ports used by Microsoft Windows). Only traffic to/from UCI is sent through the VPN connection, so if you were to access Yahoo, it would go through your regular network connection (cable modem, dsl, etc).
Full Tunnel
The "full" tunnel sends all your internet traffic through the VPN connection, and then out to the internet through UCI's connection.
The "full" tunnel sends all your internet traffic through the VPN connection, and then out to the internet through UCI's connection.
The "full" tunnel is useful for people who need to access sites off-campus that need a UCI IP address to allow access to a resource. The UCI Library has links to resources such as these. If you wanted to access the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), you can't get to it with a split tunnel because it's off campus and your off-campus packets aren't network address translated to UCI addresses. By using the "full" tunnel, this problem is circumvented. However, note that *all* your traffic is sent through the VPN connection and then out UCI's internet connection.
You should use the "full" tunnel VPN connection with care since heavy use can cause an increase in UCI's internet connection costs, and is likely slower than the split tunnel method.
Where can I use the VPN?
Posted by Unknown on 05:33
VPN service can be connected from any off-campus Internet location or UCInet Mobile Access (wireless) network. It will not work from the campus dial-in modems or any host on campus.
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