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Well, actually I use two VPNs on a regular basis.

One of the VPN services I use almost daily was recommended in the book. It’s SecureTunnel.com. I have been a paying customer of this service for more than two years. I use it primarily for web surfing and peer-to-peer torrent downloading  (ie, as a SOCKS5 proxy). In the past, I tried their encrypted Usenet services and was impressed.

More recently, I was introduced to another service, but alas, only after I had published the book. It’s PureVPN. I was introduced to it after visiting a certain country in Central Asia that blocked a number of websites including Facebook and YouTube. I used PureVPN to great success for web surfing and P2P protection. It is also very reasonably priced.

Other VPN services recommended in my book include …. well, you’ll just have to buy it.

A reader made us aware that with Home Premium versions of Windows 7, you may not be able to create a new User account named Administrator. The instructions and screenshots in chapter 7 of the book were done with Windows 7 Ultimate, not Home Premium. Following those instructions with Windows 7 Home Premium may result in an error message like that shown in the next screenshot.

If you use Windows Home Premium and get this error when trying to set up a decoy “Administrator” account, instead name the decoy account “Admin” (see the next screenshots) or something similar that will lead hackers to believe that it is the Administrator account.

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