Hotspot Shield is a versatile internet security and privacy solution. In addition to protecting you from dangerous online threats, it also protects your privacy and enables you to access any blocked websites and content. Hotspot Shield creates a virtual private network (VPN) between your device and its Internet gateway. This impenetrable tunnel prevents snoopers, hackers, and ISP‘s from spying on your web browsing activities, instant messages, downloads, credit card information or anything else you send over the network. Features: • Unblock any websites – Can’t access YouTube or Facebook at school or work?

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By using Hotspot Shield VPN software you can unblock YouTube, unblock Facebook or unblock any sites from anywhere. • Protect your IP address – VPN software enables you to protect your IP address so you can enjoy private browsing and prevent hackers and spammers from monitoring your online activities. • Surf the Web anonymously – By creating an encrypted tunnel between your computer and Hotspot Shield servers, Hotspot Shield enables you to surf the Web anonymously without being tracked or spied on. • Protect yourself from snoopers and hackers at WiFi hotspots, hotels, airports and corporate offices with the Hotspot Shield WiFi security feature.

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I installed Hotspot Shield which seems widely recommended for wifi security. Apart from doubts that it really increases your security -- even if channels traffic through a vpn connection, why would I want to route my traffic through a server I know nothing about?? -- there is now an even greater concern: I am not able to uninstall it. I have no idea what this software is doing, where is it installed, which bits are still working and so on.

The situation is this. Hotspot Shield gets installed in the /Applications folder. If user connects to internet, there appears a banner at the top of the browser page. Dent May Do Things Rar. One can click on the banner and create a vpn channel to a remote server. Uninstall: Hotspot says one has to remove the '/Applications/Hotspot Shield' folder.

But the banner keeps appearing. This banner is code snippet, in javascript, that is inserted at the beginning of EVERY html page that your browser (firefox, safari) retrieves. Both firefox and safari are affected; also, when I switch to another user (under whose account I have never used Hotspot connection), then the banner appears. This seems to imply that Hotspot installation is not contained only in the '/Applications/Hotspot Shield' folder or user preferences, the system folders are affected -- something that is unacceptable. Hotspot webforum seems closed; I could not post a question there. A google search is useless as regards uninstalling or removing. Does anyone have experience with this?

Any suggestions about how to successfully remove this software? Thanks, Hanne -- MB 13, Mac OS X (10. Lagu Ungu Surgamu. 5.4) Posted on Aug 12, 2008 4:27 AM.

The point of a vpn or an ssh connection is that is uses encryption so can be used on an untrusted network to securely connect to other servers. I do not use any 3rd party security on my mabook pro other than waterroof which is a gui to configure the built in unix firewall ipfw. I never connect to banks, email etc when using a untrusted wireless hotspot. I vpn or ssh into my server and open a vnc session and then open mail and my webrowser on the server not locally.