VPN برای کسی که می داند نه از فناوری

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1. VPN’s will do absolutely nothing to help against a computer virus. That’s not what they’re for at all.

   Honestly, computer viruses (virii?) are very rare these days. An actual computer virus works sort of like a biological one; it infects a file, generates code to replicate itself and move along, and continues. This sort of attack has been hardened up so well in the last ten or fifteen years that few people even bother trying to write these things anymore.

   Virus protection software can only protect against what is known. So any new virus will by definition defeat your virus protection, at least at first. As a result of this and the general base level security improvements, you don’t really need to buy anti-virus software. Windows has their own virus protection software, and you should use that. It’s quite good, low resource usage, and the price is right. Or don’t bother with anything, that’s honestly probably fine to.

   That isn’t to say the internet is suddenly some post virus safe paradise. If anything its worse than ever. But these days most malware (a general term for any malicious software, viruses included) is far less detectable or noticeable. It also comes bundled with lots of software you buy ‘off the shelf’ so to speak. Video games, office software suites **anti-virus** programs all will often come bundled with what can only honestly be classified as malware. If you’re not tech savvy, and you say you aren’t, and you aren’t terribly privacy conscious, then you can safely ignore this stuff. You won’t really notice.

   That being said, if you click the giant download button with balloons and flashing borders on http://www.xXwarez82.cc.pl while you’re trying to pirate some of your favorite avril lavigne songs, you’re going to completely fuck your PC. You’re probably smart enough to not fall for that, but things have changed a lot since the early years, and the traps are far less obvious than before.

   Again, a vpn with help with NONE of this. A good VPN simply makes it so that no outside eyes can ‘see’ your internet traffic.

   Think of your internet like a series of pipes filled with your data, going both outward and inward. Anytime you go to a site and make a request, or send data, that site knows about you and what you’re asking. Given the state of surveillance online now, they probably also know a ton of other things immediately that you don’t like, but that’s a separate issue entirely. When you instruct your PC to send data down a pipe to another computer somewhere, that computer can see your data, period. That’s how it has to be for anything to work (sort of, see TOR for an exception).

   That’s all fine right? Except that your pipes are clear, mostly. Some of your specific data traffic will be encrypted and opaque, but the vast majority will be freely accessible to anyone with the tools to look at the pipes. Your internet service provider, for example, knows literally everything you do online, except for specifically what is encrypted anyway, and as I said, that’s a tiny fraction of your overall web traffic.

   What a VPN does is opaque all of your pipes. This means that the only people who can see what you’re doing are, potentially, the VPN provider (which is why you need to find one you think you can trust) and the specific web locations you’re interacting with.

   VPNs provide privacy.

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