Hotspot Shield 0.941

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License:Free
Editor's Rating: Average
User Rating: (out of 57 votes) Rate it!
Downloads: 312,649 Requirements: Windows 2000/XP
Limitations: No limitations
Date Added:December 20, 2007

Publisher's description of Hotspot Shield
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Hotspot Shield is a freeware which ensures anonymous and censor-free internet usage. With Hotspot Shield you can even access blocked websites. For example: Skype is blocked in certain parts of the world. With Hotspot Shield, anyone can access Skype (and any other site they choose). The free software ensures censor-free internet usage by encrypting all communications to and from your computer to protect you from online spying.

Version 0.941 increases limit to 5 Gb per person.

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Editor's review of Hotspot Shield
This freeware program promises to encrypt all your Internet connections, but since most public Wi-Fi access points in the U.S. are open, it's a bit hard to gauge Hotspot Shield's effectiveness. However, the connection itself is a bit wonky.

Once the program is installed, it creates an HTML link on your desktop. Double-clicking on it will open the application in your Web browser, and you'll be taken to a page detailing your Connection Status, IP Address, Server Address, Bytes sent and received, and the duration of the connection. Hotspot Shield is ad supported, so you'll get a big banner ad that lives at the top of every Web page, too. Closing the tab with the app's control panel doesn't disconnect the shield, though: For that, or to reload the control panel, you have to go through the green shield icon that gets loaded into your system tray. Also, there's a 5GB transfer limit.

Overall, we can't give Hotspot Shield a strong recommendation, but as a last resort it might be worth trying out.