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British Expats Can Stay Connected Online With AnchorFree's New Expat Shield

Creator of Globally Popular Hotspot Shield Gives Brits an "At-Home" Web Experience by Assigning Anonymous IP Addresses Based in the UK

Today, AnchorFree Inc., creator of Expat Shield and Hotspot Shield, the world's most popular free privacy tools, launched a new version of Expat Shield that will allow United Kingdom expats and students living abroad to access the British Web from anywhere in the world. Users who download Expat Shield can stay connected to friends and family with private, secure and full access to all the Internet sites that they would be able to visit at home.

Expat Shield is the sister site of Hotspot Shield, which gives more than 8.5 million monthly users universal access to U.S. Web content and secures the entire browsing session for users online. With Expat Shield, UK residents abroad will now have a way to remain private online while staying connected to the sites they love, including:

• Popular news and information sources, like Google, The Financial Times, CNN and the BBC.
  
  
• Social networking sites like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and MySpace.
  
  
• VOIP services like Skype, which are often blocked in foreign regions.
  
  
• BBC iPlayer and other sites that are unavailable from certain countries or outside of the UK.
  
  

In addition to keeping users secure, anonymous and free of privacy concerns online, Expat Shield also offers a unique service that gives anyone the ability to shop on popular U.S. e-commerce sites as if they were in the country, giving people the ability to shop at eBay or Zappos and receive direct shipments to anywhere worldwide.

"The world is more connected than ever before and people everywhere are finding ways to stay in touch with friends and family online through Hotspot Shield. We noticed that many of our most passionate users were actually UK residents, but that they did not have any tools that catered specifically to the Web content they find in Britain," said David Gorodyansky, founder and CEO, AnchorFree. "The new version of Expat Shield will help connect all UK citizens to Web sessions that will make them feel closer to home no matter where they are in the world."

Both Hotspot Shield and Expat Shield work by establishing a secure tunnel between a user's computer and Internet connection, encrypting entire Web sessions to keep the users protected. When users connect to Expat Shield, it assigns them a UK IP address. As a result, all Web sessions take place as they would in the UK.

To download Expat Shield, visit: http://expatshield.com. The program is free and will install automatically. Expat Shield currently runs on Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 7. Hotspot Shield is available on all Windows operating systems, as well as Mac OS X (10.6 Snow Leopard), Mac OS X (10.5 Leopard) and Mac OS X (10.4 Tiger).

About AnchorFree
AnchorFree enables millions of users globally to surf the Web freely and securely through Hotspot Shield, the world's first and most popular ad-supported virtual private network. More than 8.5 million monthly users in 100 countries rely on Hotspot Shield to secure their Web browsing experience, proliferating freedom of information online and democratizing the Web. It is the only free way to ensure privacy and total anonymity online on desktop computers, laptops and iPhones. Hotspot Shield is powered by AnchorFree's proprietary communication platform that enables marketers to distribute ad campaigns, messaging and content to millions of users, totaling over two billion page views every month. AnchorFree is a privately held venture backed Company and is based in Mountain View, California. For more information or to download Hotspot Shield, please visit www.anchorfree.com. To visit Expat Shield, please visit http://www.expatshield.com.