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Be hidden
Good news to all people for whom being private in Internet counts. Some Netherlands based company started to provide free, that’s right completely free, VPN service. It’s enough to register and you can enjoy 128-bit encryption over your Internet connection which would gain you some privacy. You don’t have to install any software, just configure VPN connection in your system. Of course as it’s new and it’s free be careful, because all your Internet traffic would go through their servers first. I would not do any credit card transactions when connected with their VPN for the time being, lets wait and see if there would be no bad words about it in Net. But for any other type of activity I suggest to give it a try. For now it’s pretty fast, but we will see how it would go when it would start to be popular. Now go to their website itshidden.com and enjoy!
Problem with VPN connection in (not IE8) Win7
Because of many reasons I’m using VPN connection when surfing the Web. It’s very good feature for me that I can setup IE7 to be able to connect to my VPN provider before connecting to any web server. But it’s not working good in Internet Explorer 8. When I’ve changed settings to dial default connection and trying to navigate to some page usual dialog about making such connection appears, but:
1. It’s not connecting me with VPN.
2. It displays a drop-down list where I should be able to choose the connection (remember that I’ve set the default one, so it shouldn’t appear), but the list is blank.
So no automatic use of VPN in IE8. I’m not saying that it sucks, because:
1. IE8 is still under development, however it’s very late stage.
2. I’ve tested it only on Windows 7 which is also under development, so maybe it’s not IE fault, but OS. If time would allow I will test it on XP or Vista box to be sure.
UPDATE:
OK, as a real geek I couldn’t stand a fact that I’ve not tested it on different OS:) So after launching my Hyper-V station I was able to check it on Windows XP Professional with IE8 installed (same as on Win7), and it’s working. So, it’s definitively not IE8 fault, but Win7. Hopefully they would fix it in final version (I’m rather sure about it). Till then I would need to connect manually:(