VPN Client Software by Perfect Privacy

With Perfect Privacy as your VPN provider you have free access to our VPN client software with many advanced features. Our open sourcesoftware, which is developed completely in-house, will automatically update itself and the configuration files so that you can be sure that your software and configuration is always up to date.

The Perfect Privacy VPN Manager for Windows (Vista/7/8/10) offers a lot of additional features that can improve comfort, speed and security. This document explains how to make best use of the functionality of our software. For more detailed information about the settings options in the VPN Manager, click on our documentation .

Software for Linux, macOS, iOS and Android can be found in our download area for apps .

Activate while tunnel is active

When this option is checked, the firewall protection will be active only whilst an OpenVPN or IPsec connection has been established.

This setting is useful if you want to access the internet without VPN occasionally (e.g. to use personalized services like online banking or shopping).

As soon as you disconnect an existing VPN connection, your internet connection will remain functional but without providing any encryption or anonymity.

Activate while program is running

With this option you can make sure that traffic will never be sent over an unencrypted connection while Perfect Privacy client software is running. In contrast to the previous setting, the firewall protection will remain active even if no VPN connection is established.

This means that your internet connection will not work if the Perfect Privacy software is running without an established VPN connection. To access the internet without VPN, you will need to exit the Perfect Privacy VPN Manager first.

This setting is useful if you are generally accessing the internet with VPN but want to be able to use an unencrypted connection for specific purposes.

Activate permanently

As the name suggests, this setting will activate the firewall protection permanently. This means that your internet connection will only be working when you have established an OpenVPN or IPsec connection.

Even if you exit the Perfect Privacy VPN Manager, the firewall rules will remain in effect. To access the internet without VPN you will first have to lower the protection level or deactivate the firewall protection.

This setting is useful if you want to prevent accessing the internet without VPN by any means.

DNS Leak Protection

The DNS Leak Protection ensures that only Perfect Privacy name servers will be used to resolve domain names so that your ISP cannot determine what websites you are visiting.

The levels of protection are identical to the firewall settings. It is recommended to use the same settings for firewall and DNS leak protection.

Activate cascading

To establish a connection over multiple servers with more than 2 hops, you will need to raise up your hops in the software first. To do so, click on "Preferences" and scroll to "Maximum Cascading Hops".

Choose the number of hops up to a maximum of four. Then go back to "Dashboard".

Establish a cascaded connection

Cascading itself is easy. After you have established your first VPN connection in the Dashboard, click on "Add Server" and select the next desired server location.

This Server will then be displayed under the first server in the Dashboard.

You can repeat the last step with up to two more servers. Afterwards, the dashboard should display the order of the hops among each other.

Video: Enable Multi-Hop

Activating Stealth VPN

Click on Stealth in the VPN Manager on the left and select a stealth protocol. If you enable Stealth VPN, the client will automatically switch to TCP configuration if that wasn't the case already (Stealth VPN does not work with UDP).

For the obfuscation you can choose between Socks, HTTP, OBFS, Stunnel and SSH. Additionally you can choose the port to use, the options are 22 (SSH), 53 (DNS), 443 (SSL/HTTPS) or a random high port.

Port forwarding

Port forwarding in Perfect Privacy software is by defaultenabled and forwards to 3 randomly selected ports that you can see in the Dashboard. However, you can also disable it under "Port Forwarding".

You can also check "Enable Custom Port Forwarding" and select a server for port forwarding. For BitTorrent downloads, the fast Dutch and German gigabit servers are particularly suitable. "Amsterdam" we have preset for you. You can also select additional or other ports.

Most programs such as uTorrent require a 1-to-1 port forwarding so that source and destination port is the same. Click on the "Add" button. A new random port will be assigned and appear in the section.