Stop using the Hola VPN right now

Massive, massive security risk to anyone using any version of the Hola application - whether it's the phone app, the Chrome extension, whatever. Uninstall it immediately.

The short version: Hola allows other users to use your network connection as an "exit node"... which basically means that any user anywhere can use your connection to do whatever they want on the internet, but you're liable for it. Someone in his basement wants some CP? Sure, he can just access your connection through Hola, acquire whatever CP he wants, and then the cops can come banging at YOUR door over it because it was YOUR connection that was used to download/distribute/view/whatever.

Stop using Hola immediately.

PS, after uninstalling it would be advisable to run something like https://www.malwarebytes.org/ to make sure nothing nefarious has been left behind, either by Hola or by someone using your connection.

The hola network potential is very blatantly spelled out on their commercial site:

https://luminati.io/

And no attempt at concealment, at the bottom of the webpage, it states:
"Luminati is a service by Hola."


(If you're not sure what Schnooks meant by "CP" - the "C" is for "child". You can figure out what the "P" stands for, while you uninstall Hola.)

Have you only just figured this out? Think about it, Hola like many sites, collects and sells data and bandwidth usage, they're not going to provide a service like this for free. You think that they set up servers, design and code software and assume overheads and employee wages out of the goodness of their heart?

Personally, I never used it (other than one time when I tried it but found it to be a big pile of useless cack).

There are plenty of people, out there, who fall for this sort of trick all the time. Old, young, inebriated, broke, whatever... As they might already be afflicted, I'm not sure that teaching them by condescension is the right way to go.

I dunno. Maybe half of them deserve it?

The other half, well, we'll probably end up paying for their actions.

This is the same type of faux outrage that infects social media every time sites like FB update their code.

That's just a cover-story. The people pulling the strings are Mossad and the CIA.

FACT.

Thanks, thats what that my retired aunty from Dorset and that hot girl in secondary school who is now fat that I don't have the heart to unfriend, keep telling me.

Ah yes, someone told me about this a couple of months back. Stopped using it but you reminded me I need to run malware, thanks!

If you pay for your porn then you probably won't need to.

SchnookoLoly, Greenhill: Thank you for the heads up!

Are you really that unhappy, Oink?

I don't quite see the correlation there but I'm not unaware of the irony about people posting bollox on a social site about people posting bollox on a social site.

..but this is nothing new, the free Hola has been like this all along. Uses could become an unsuspecting portal to the world. Asside from the security risk, anyone on limited bandwidth could find them selves with a hefty bill for over usage. Limewire had the same problem.

Thanks for the heads up, I've disabled the application for now but if its a massive massive risk why isn't this splashed all over the internet? 'Not saying your wrong, I just think its worth investigating further before going all reactive on it. They say there's no such thing as a free lunch and if we follow the money, as the above poster has done, it points to: Luminati VPN Network