Best Free VPN Services Are More Effective at Protecting You Against Online Threats Than an Antivirus
Best VPN services in conjunction with Antivirus on their servers appear to have much better results in protection against known and unknown threats. As there is an additional layer of defense between the user and his computer, VPN makes it much more difficult for known threats to locate specific target machines. As some VPN services have firewalls at their servers, many threats are blocked there and since IP addresses are assigned, malware cannot specifically target known IP addresses. Further if a good VPN service also provides Antivirus as well as Firewall, the risk drops appreciably, particularly if the Antivirus utilized at the server is different than that at the users' machine as each Antivirus relies on different generic techniques for dealing with new threats. In this case, the risk of known viruses can drop to as low as 2.5% and unknown threats to between 10-20%, far better than the current 15% and 50% by using a standalone Antivirus program. Antivirus and protected data A...