Stop using the Hola VPN immediately. The company behind Hola is turning your computer into a node on a botnet

Let me ask you all this quick question: Is there a free VPN that works on Utorrent? Ive tried a few free ones but they dont work when i open Utorrent. It appears that I would have to get a paying one, is that true or does someone out there know a free alternative?

It looks like either Google or Hola themselves pulled it, I can’t find it on the store any more. I was kind of curious what the rating was doing after this all hit.

I don’t know how to uninstall it on my iPhone. I deleted the app, but it is still listed in the “VPN” part of settings on my phone

Never use free anti virus or Vpn or any free pc utility. Invariably does harm.
Pure Vpn is a great paid alternative I’ve been using for 2 years

…so why not just use Tor?

Well, guess I’m torrenting this week’s Community

What if I have it but really haven’t used it?

But this is exactly why I have a guest network - when the police come, I’ll point to it and explain that someone must have connected to it and done all of that illegal activity.

And it’ll be 100% true what I say. Now please don’t over-think that electromagnet array.

Paging Mr /u/SuperConductiveRabbi to the thread, a Mr /u/SuperConductiveRabbi to the thread please.

PSA: If you’re uncomfortable running a Tor exit node, you shouldn’t install Hola Unblocker.

November 15, 2013

So Mr. Rabbi, has anyone contacted you from the media yet, since you scooped them all on this “hot breaking news” by over a year and a half?

How will I use pandora now?

Any information regarding Zenmate and Hotspot Shield? Should I be wary of using these as well?

It blows my mind that people run these free proxies without even considering the fact that ALL of their Internet traffic is going through foreign proxies… passwords, information, porn, EVERYTHING. And people just do it…

Yeah this happens about yearly with VPNS.

It’s actually insanely expensive to run a VPN service and the only way you can make money is doing stuff like this.

With all these anti hola threads on reddit in every imaginable subreddit the past week, I can’t help but feel as if these are attack ads from competitors.

Meh Imma keep using it, life’s too short to worry about what could happen

I used it for about a day or so…really didnt like it. I had a feelig it wasn’t safe. So I removed the Chrome.

Wow, /r/canada is insanely easily scared.

Guess what people, you’ve been using this service for months now. Just think about how many gigabytes of childporn and trojans have been going through your computer. It’s too late to uninstall it now, the RCMP will be knocking at your door any minute now…

Can someone tell me why a man would have Hola VPN on his phone? My husband has it on his phone and I’m not sure what it’s for. Thanks

I’m a dirty yank, but I don’t need to be blamed for someone else’s dirty yank.

Computer network guy here, I can say that what he’s claiming is 100% accurate. In my network logs, the address of the person who downloaded kiddyporn&flagburning.avi was the address of the VPN exit node.

However, this is even more critical.

And on some systems, it gets worse; Hola will happily run whatever you feed it as the ‘SYSTEM’ user.

This basically lets a virus do ANYTHING on your system. Even stuff like install a rootkit so you can’t detect the virus but it can open up new botnet nodes.