Anti Virus Software & VPNs - Tech-inmotion/VPNTechguy GitHub Wiki

As soon as people become savvier to the inner workings of the internet, they could understand how data travels. At the same time, these people understood the code well too. It meant they could develop code and send it through the internet and access hardware ports which connect to people’s computers or sometimes entire company networks. The day of hackers and viruses were born.

This meant anti-virus software needed to be developed to detect these virus threats. However, hackers also became pretty good at snatching packets of data travelling through the internet. An antivirus is a local form of protection, but it cannot stop hackers getting information travelling through the device and the wires of the internet infrastructure, so the VPN was born.

VPNs do not necessarily stop viruses because that it the job of the Anti-virus. All the VPN is helping you with is creating a secure tunnel through the internet. That tunnel is fully encrypted as long as you are using the correct protocol. However, just because encryption is present, that does not mean viruses cannot be passed down the VPN tunnel.

The aim of the VPN tunnel is to stop anyone from getting into the data being passed through it as well as to hide the websites the VPN user is accessing. This means anyone looking from the outside in will hit a brick wall or at least a complex encrypted wall that requires a key to access but only 2 devices hold that key and there are no replicas out there.

To learn more about VPNs, you can look here at internetbeskyttelse.dk a website that covers multiple subjects from what you can use VPNs for and just how its privacy and encryption works.