SpotFlux Review : A Free VPN for a private and secure Internet experience

While you are on the Net, in that location are many things happening that you don't know. There are people and companies tracking yous to know your interests. In that location are agencies collecting data about you and your computers. There may be hackers trying to access the information you are sending or receiving over the Internet.

SpotFlux review

Earlier, we talked near how TOR stops hackers from following you. This article is a review of SpotFlux, a free VPN software that creates an encrypted connexion to SpotFlux cloud and allows yous to transfer your information safely using the connection. Not only it saves your data from being accessed by hackers, but it also keeps advertizement networks at bay too. This means fewer abrasive ads and hence less bandwidth consumption. SpotFlux also prevents Internet agencies from tracking y'all on the Cyberspace.

All this is achieved past creating an encrypted connection where your IP address and DNS is changed then that people do not know who yous are and where y'all are located. The encrypted connection also provides for security of data and protection from targeted adverts. Another reward of using SpotFlux is that it keeps on scanning the incoming traffic for malware and destroys them if found.

In the next few paragraphs, I will be talking well-nigh my feel with SpotFlux. Before that, I sum upward the benefits of using SpotFlux in four points:

Encrypted, Secure Connection To Net via SpotFlux Cloud
Scan and Remove Malware in Incoming Connections
Random IP and DNS addresses forestall yous from being tracked
Prevention of targeted advertising makes your browsing experience better.

Afterward downloading and installing SpotFlux, it added a new component to my calculator. It was a virtual Network Adapter and was listed under Network Adaptors in Device Manager (Windows Key + Prnt Scr).

You lot can too meet a new network connectedness in your list of networks. To view the connection details in Windows seven, click on the network icon in the Organisation Tray and select Open up Networking and Sharing Center. In the window that appears, click Manage Network Adaptors.

SpotFlux Review

However, to my surprise, Windows did not detect whatever active Internet connexion on this new network (See image below). I opened up the properties of this new network and everything was prepare to Automated Configuration nether both IPv4 and IPv6.

When I turned off SpotFlux, the new connection showed "Network Cable Unplugged". This confirmed that the new connection volition be operational only when SpotFlux is turned on, and an encrypted connexion is created between your reckoner and SpotFlux servers.

Upon proper installation of SpotFlux, you will be asked if y'all wish to run the program. Confirm that and you will see a dialog that takes around a minute to establish a secure connection between your figurer and the SpotFlux servers. Yous can see the SpotFlux icon in Windows Organisation Tray. The only options you become upon clicking the icon are: Disconnect, Open Main Window and Quit.

Disconnect will disable the secure connection only volition not quit SpotFlux.
Open Primary Window will open the window where you tin enable or disable the secure connectedness and change the settings (run at startup, warn before closing and stuff like that).
Quit will first disable the secure connexion so quit SpotFlux.

Get A New Identity

Upon installing SpotFlux, I was skeptical about if it is really working. I checked out Net Explorer and Google Chrome for add-ons and extensions. There were none. And so information technology occurred to me that I should check out the IP address and DNS. I used whatismyipaddress.com to check my IP accost. Following are images of my location before and after enabling SpotFlux. You can encounter my location set to be US when SpotFlux was enabled and reverted back to Hyderabad upon turning off SpotFlux.

NOTE: You can use IPCONFIG /ALL command in the Command Window to view the DNS. To open the Command Window, press Windows Central + R. In the Run dialog box that appears, type CMD and press Enter. You will go the Command window where you tin blazon IPCONFIG /ALL to view your current DNS.

This means that you can featherbed whatsoever restrictions in place past your ISP. Also, your Internet service provider and other agencies cannot track y'all on the Net as you lot belong to a different country altogether. Now the just affair that needs to be seen is advert-blocking.

For the websites I visited before, I had to close popup windows manually. With SpotFlux enabled, the same websites failed to produce any popup window or popup banner – especially Wink-based. The common kinds of popups are blocked by the latest browsers themselves. To confirm if it is the SpotFlux that is blocking popups, visit one of those websites that run Wink ads. Most of the blogs on blogspot.com run such popups. Besides, the B-grade websites offering free music and movies (not torrents) present you with such popup ads.

In that location are some websites such as popupcheck.com and popuptest.com that run popup blocker tests but in my example, I found my browsers (without SpotFlux) to be capable of blocking them. You may want to try them out too.

SpotFlux – Drawbacks

Since your DNS is changed, your Google, Facebook, and certain other services will say they don't recognize the computer you lot are using and may ask you to perform additional steps for login. Some sites, such as Facebook, give you the pick to save the 'new device' while others will keep on asking you lot to perform additional info every fourth dimension y'all log in.

The other drawback is session timeouts. Browsing with SpotFlux enabled may cause delays due to which, timeouts may happen. However, this is a rare condition and given the type of security yous enjoy with SpotFlux, it is bearable.

If y'all have been using SpotFlux or plan to do and so, please let us know your thoughts on the free VPN – that is the perfect word to describe SpotFlux.

CyberGhost Secure VPN is another anonymity tool for Windows that completely hides and protects your identity online.

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