Alternative to Avast SecureLine VPN

pranaman · Sep 17, 2018

Hi,

I updated my free version of Avast A/V and this popped up, to promote their "Avast SecureLine VPN" and remedy those issues.

I have comcast/xfinity for my ISP, and I like the heads up, and want to be have security and privacy.

Are there steps I can take, and/or get another free/lower cost VPN or software that will do the same, or better?

bill001g · Sep 19, 2018

I would hope you are not one of those people who go to their doctor and ask to get drugs they saw on TV even though they are not sick.

VPN has a very narrow usage, mostly people trying to by pass restriction say on netflix or in many cases do illegal activities.

Your data needs end to end encryption so nobody in the path can read it. HTTPS is the key to that. The traffic is encrypted all the way between your machine and the server. All financial sites use this and huge numbers of regular web sites also do.

So using HTTPS secures you data already. Lets say you didn't use HTTPS and relied only on VPN. Your traffic would be secure between you and the VPN provider but it would then go between the VPN provider and the final server unprotected. It is really no different than if you connected a ethernet cable to your neighbor internet rather than your own. The traffic between your house and the neighbors house would be secure but you are still running over the internet.

And don't buy into VPN is more secure. Almost all VPN uses the exact same encryption as HTTPS. It is in fact designed to look like HTTPS traffic to avoid it being blocked.

So unless you know why you actually need a VPN you likely do not. Which you select is going to be based on those needs. What is really bad is many of the so called free VPN actually inject advertising and harvest your data making it less secure. You always want to pay for VPN service if you use them.

The worst offenders to privacy and security are tracking software run by companies like facebook and google. This crap runs on your computer and is best blocked by ad blockers and add on like ghostery.

Google is a massive offender when it comes to trying to track even when you have vpn up. If your traffic comes from many of the vpn ip blocks they run their captcha pretending to verify you are human but what it is actually doing is generating a unique cookie it sends with every search you do after.

pranaman · Dec 8, 2018

Well, I hardly watch tv, and drug requests are just out of the question.

I do value security helpful, preferably considerate information.

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