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Originally Posted by mbonwick
All having a VPN does is anonymise your traffic out on the internet. While it is secure and encrypted in the VPN tunnel, unless its sent over HTTPS, it will be in plaintext out in the internet.
With the rise of HTTPS, a little vigilance will save you from potential "man in the middle attacks" (e.g. cloning bank details).
VPN won't protect you from nasties picked up via website drive-bys.
For now, all a VPN really does is make it harder for your ISP/the government/the NSA etc etc to snoop in on what you're doing on the internet.
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Thank`s for that, those kind of snoops don`t bother me with having nothing to hide.
I will ensure my browsing and PC`s are protected.
Ken.