Proton VPN comes from the team behind Proton Mail and runs entirely on Swiss infrastructure with a strict no-logs policy that has been publicly audited. The Windows client offers Secure Core routing, which sends traffic through hardened privacy hubs before it exits, plus the Stealth protocol that disguises VPN traffic as ordinary HTTPS on networks that block tunnels.
The app adds NetShield DNS-level filtering, per-app split tunnelling, Moderately/Strict kill switch profiles and a permanent 10 Gbps server backbone. This release is pre-activated: Secure Core, NetShield and every country in the paid pool unlock at first launch with no account prompt.
Windows 10/11 x64, 4 GB RAM, 180 MB free disk space