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Demo 4 – Proton VPN

How to install Proton VPN:

● Download Proton VPN from their official website by clicking on the link.

Download VPN | Proton VPN

● Run the Proton VPN install wizard on your system and follow the instructions for a default
setup.

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 ● Click on next.

● Click on next.

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 ● Click on next.

● Click on Install.

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 ● After installation, Proton VPN will open, and will prompt user to create account/login.
Click on ‘create account’ button which will redirect you to the Proton website.
● After creating the account, we can login to the Proton VPN service.

● Login to the VPN service with the credentials of your account.

● The first boot shows the user his status. Click on Quick Connect button to activate VPN

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 service.
● Your IP: 103.75.160.74

● The VPN service will connect to the fastest server it finds to connect.

● Your IP: 149.34.244.161

● The VPN service is now active, and the VPNs IP address will be reflected online instead of
your IP.

Demo 5 – Quad9 DNS

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Problem Statement:

Setup Quad9 to route all DNS requests through Quad9 instead of default DNS of your ISP.

Solution:

● Open the quad9 website by clicking on the following link.

● Link: https://docs.quad9.net/

● Now scroll down and search for “Windows” and then click on “Windows 10” as shown in
the screenshot. Then you will see the following window appears.

● Now click on the windows search icon . Search for “Control Panel” as shown in the
screenshot.

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 ● Now click on “Control Panel” to open the application. And then click on “Network and
Internet” as shown in the screenshot.

● After clicking, then again click on “Network and Sharing centre” as shown in the
screenshot.

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 ● After click, then click on “Change Adapter Settings” as shown in the screenshot.

● Then right-click on “Ethernet” and then select the “Properties” as shown in the
screenshot.

● After clicking, then select Internet Protocol Version 4 and then click on Properties as
shown in the screenshot.

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 ● Select the ‘Use the following DNS server’ option and enter the address shown in the
image below
Enter the DNS as 9.9.9.9

● Click on OK, now your DNS queries will be routed through Quad9

Demo 6 – Proxychains

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Problem Statement:

Setup Proxychains to route traffic through different proxy servers.

Solution:

● Open the Kali-Linux virtual machine.

● Open a terminal and use command: “sudo su -” to provide root permissions to the
terminal.

● Then use command: “apt install proxychains tor -y” to install proxychains

● Set up proxy servers.

● Open a web browser and search for public proxy servers list. Open any link that lists public
proxy servers.

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 ● Now open terminal and add proxy servers to proxychains.

● Open terminal and open proxychains.conf file by using command: ” nano

/etc/proxychains4.conf”

● Then you will see the file opening. Uncomment (remove the hash symbol) dynamic_chain
and comment (prefix the hash symbol) strict_chain.

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 ● Scroll to the end of file and add proxy server details obtained from the website.

● Now press CTRL+S to save and CTRL+X to exit.

● Now Verify that proxychain is working.

● Open any website in Firefox browser using command:- “proxychains firefox

www.google.com”

● In the terminal you will see that the traffic is getting routed through the proxy servers that
you’ve added.To be able to connect successfully, you need at least one proxy server to be
live.

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