Protect Yourself with HotSpot Shield
In many hotspots today, malicious people can run their computers or droids in adhoc mode allowing your computer to connect to them while unknowingly to you; they have malicious intent. How is this done? By running their computer in adhoc mode and with them being connected by a second wireless card or on their 3G network, their computer broadcast an SSID that you trust. After you connect, the malicious user begins to run ettercap, etherreal, wireshark or other packet capturing software and may even begin to try to break into your computer. This process runs your network traffic through their computer.
There is no true protection against this other than being aware of who / what you connect to, use https when surfing and to use something like HotSpot Shield.
HotSpot Shield is free to use and allows your computer to connect to the internet securely. The installation requires HotSpot drivers to be installed so that your computer can reconnect to servers on the web for security. Without losing internet connectivity, your computer during connection will redirect to the program via your own browser allowing a secure connection on the web. When you do this, you obtain another external ip address and you are assigned a second internal private ip address by a VPN thus encrypting your traffic.
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