Block all outbound traffic for extra privacy?

[anonyman888 0]

I may be misunderstanding something here, but even when AirVPN is running and connected to a server my PC is still intermittently checking the usual sites for updates (Microsoft, my virus checkers, and so on) - doesn't this mean that any outbound traffic still identifies my PC? Naturally the contents of the traffic can't be seen, but the sites that my software connects to can still identify my PC as the source of the traffic and associated requests?

 

To work around this, shouldn't all non-essential outbound traffic be blocked when using AirVPN?

[LZ1 662]

Hello!

 

If you're using Network Lock in the Eddie client, all communication goes through Air and thus it won't be your own IP they see.

 

It's not meant to be the case that your PC can't communicate at all, if you use Air - the main thing is that any communication happens inside "the tunnel" and any IP address is therefore seen to be Airs and not yours.

 

I dug up this post for you though, in case you want to play around. Likewise, perhaps you should read this again. .

 

Do also check ipleak.net now and again. As your account is really old, I would also encourage you to ensure that you're using the latest Eddie client.

 

If you're still curious about Air and other security questions, you're also most welcome to check the guide in my signature, which I just updated with a new question containing 20+ points relating to Airs security practices, in the First Questions section. As an aside, you could also consider using more software which isn't as "chatty" with the outside world, if you wanted. It's also worth noting that there's many ways to "identify" a PC that don't touch anything to do with IP addresses; web-beacons, fingerprinting, unique ad-ID's that come with Windows and so on.