Hotspot Shield is an extremely helpful application to protect the entire session of your web surfing. It has stringent provisions to offer protection to your privacy, security as well as anonymity while browsing the web. The application has been launched by AnchorFree to offer utmost security to your internet connection and its related operations.
Its inbuilt Wi-Fi securities prevent the hack or leak out of users’ personal information like credit card number, password and other sensitive data. This application builds a virtual private network (VPN) effective between your laptop / system and the wireless router. This impenetrable virtual environment prevents hackers, snoopers and ISPs to gain access to your web browsing activities. All the records of your transactions as well as downloads remain anonymous and beyond the reach of the third party web browsers.
This application works efficiently at securing your network regardless of a home network or a public internet network. It shields your identity by providing immense security to your online activities like downloads, shopping etc via a secured HTTPS. It reflects your identity as anonymous to other remote users which saves you from the dangers of revealing your personal details. Unless, you intentionally choose to select some other status for yourself, you will reflect as anonymous throughout the entire web browsing session.
Hotspot Shield is an excellent tool to enable users to experience an absolutely safe and secured web browsing experience. The application is supported by Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Mac OS X (10.5 Leopard), Mac OS X (10.4 Tiger).