Here are a selection of VPN providers that we recommend as market leaders. You don't need to be a computer wizard to install a VPN. Protect your family from internet snoopers and scammers.

Personal Secure VPN Selection

1. Hide my arse

2. ItsHidden

ItsHidden is a free VPN solution that has opened up a BETA test to the public, who can now privatize their Internet traffic – including BitTorrent transfers in no time. ItsHidden was set up with torrent users in mind, allowing them to hide their identities from ‘third parties’ who choose to snoop on their activities. It has both free and paid services and works on all Platforms including Windows, Mac, Linux, IPhone etc.

3. LogMeIn Hamachi

LogMeIn Hamachi provides a secure way of setting up a VPN, a LAN over the internet. It is highly secure and since there is no setting up of the firewall, it’s easy to install. Apart from connecting two computers, it also enables sharing of files and resources and remote desktop control with Remote Desktop. It’s free for non-commercial and personal use. It provides encrypted tunneling across public and private networks.

4. GPass

GPass helps you bypass censorship and blocked web sites by tunneling network traffic through encrypted proxy servers. It is particularly popular in China. GPass is easy to use, and requires no setup on your part unless you want to do a little tweaking. It’s also impressively fast for a proxy.

5. AnchorFree Hotspot Shield

Hotspot Shield from Anchorfree helps to fix and solve unencrypted wireless network connection issue. Hotspot Shield keeps the Internet connection secure and anonymous on public networks by creating a virtual private network (VPN) between the notebook, laptop, desktop computer or iPhone and AnchorFree Internet gateway. This impenetrable tunnel prevents snoopers and hackers from viewing users’ email, instant messages, credit card information or anything else you send over the network.

6. LOKI Network Project

Loki Network Project is a free VPN service and SSL based free VPN server which base on US. You can use it with free without registering as a member. Do not expect great speed as yet.

7. Your Freedom

Your Freedom is not exactly a VPN service but functions like one. It provides both a free and paid service. Free service limits to six hours of usage per day (up to 18 hours per week). You need to install a client on your system and a user name & password to use this.

8. Ace VPN

Ace VPN makes use of open-source VPN client OpenVPN to provide its services, you simply install the client and use pre-configured config files to connect using your username and password. It has both Free and Paid options. The paid service is one of the cheapest ones out there.

9. FreeDur

10. LinkIdeo