PureVPN

PureVPN

Original author(s)	GZ Systems
Initial release	2006
Operating system	Microsoft Windows Mac OS X Linux iOS Android
Available in	English, Français, Turkish, Deutsch
Website	[1]

History

PureVPN is a VPN service for internet users seeking to achieve online security and privacy and at the same time internet freedom. The product is enriched with couple of features that allow users to make their data secure through VPN tunneling. Founded in 2006 by GZ-systems in HongKong, Purevpn has emerged as a strong name in the VPN industry. PureVPN was rated among the top Android VPN by PC Mag, due to their easy to use app.. Although in the beginning PureVPN had 2 servers only but the range of servers was increased to 16 locations by the year 2008. Later in 2014 PureVPN updated their VPN apps with add-ons like NAT firewall and Internet Kill Switch.

Features

PureVPN supports multiple protocols in its software such as PPTP, L2TP/IPSec and OpenVPN, some more features are: DNS Leak protection IPv6 leak protection Internet kill switch Access via UDP/TCP Multiple VPN gateways Unlimited bandwidth Split Tunneling

Servers

PureVPN has a wide range of servers in 140 countries with 750+ servers. Few of them are in the below list;

Australia Brazil Canada Denmark Finland France Germany Hong Kong India Ireland Israel Italy Japan Mexico Netherlands New Zealand Norway Romania Singapore Sweden Switzerland Turkey UK US

Privacy Policy

PureVPN has made it clear on their website, that they do not keep any activity logs of any users. Purevpn claims to store only name, email address and phone number for the following reason: Names (Required for Account Creation) Email address (Needed to create an account & other promotional offers) Phone number (For limited users from certain regions ONLY)

Uses

Online gamers have also used PureVPN to reduce ping issues while connecting to international gaming servers and preventing virus attacks by rival gamers. Many internet users have also showed interest using PureVPN to easily access content which was not available in their geo location, thus making it available by connecting to the required region via PureVPN software.

Software

Online gamers also use PureVPN to reduce ping on local Internet providers, and also keeping them protected with cyberattacks by rival gamers. People use it for various more purposes of streaming and accessing geo restricted content online.

Other Competitors

VPN industry has evolved massively in the past couple of years, and many VPN services has provided great value to internet users. Some of top VPN providers are Hide My Ass, NordVPN, IvacyVPN, IPvanish and many more. All VPN services compete each other with pricing, vpn protocols and features. PureVPN has an edge with other VPN services as it is the only reputable VPN name based in Hong Kong unlike other belonging to Europe and North America.

Controversy

In 2013 PureVPN faced a controversy regarding a fake email which was sent to all the active users, that stated "Dear customer, it is to inform you that due to an incident we had to close your account permanently. We are no longer able to run an anonymization service due to legal issues we are facing". The email was later reported to be spam and PureVPN responded to it saying " It has confirmed that it was a zero-day exploit related to a vulnerability at WHMCS. The compromised data were email addresses and names for a subset of registered users, and “no billing information like Credit Card or other sensitive personal information was compromised.”