How to ensure my VPN is protecting me properly?

VPN
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I won’t name-drop as per rule 3 but I got a VPN with an antivirus program and wanted to make sure **ALL** of my traffic was protected by it. So a few questions to make sure I’ve done everything right…

1: Do I need to do anything in Windows settings? (Settings > Network & Internet > VPN)
2: When using qbittorrent, do all I have to do is change “Network interface” or are there other settings I need to set to be properly protected?
3: Are there any other settings I should change aside from just, having the VPN on?
4: Which Tunnel driver should I be using? There are two to choose from. But I don’t want to namedrop

I can see in my taskbar that it says connected through the VPN but then under that the name of my regular network

I can also see in Wireshark; assuming I’m using it correctly; that all traffic to my IP are from [Tunnel driver name here] so I *think* that’s good lol

Sorry if these are noob questions I just wanna make sure there’s nothing else I’m missing

*edited to add another question and line of details

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If you’re using a VPN app, which it sounds like you are, you don’t have to change any Windows settings manually, the app handles it all for you.

What you can do is enable a kill switch option (if it exists in the app) so that if the VPN connection drops out it blocks your internet so as not to leak your real IP.

3

make sure vpn starts with pc then youre always covered

4

It depends a lot, are you using a VPN app or a VPN on a PC?

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It’s on PC, it shows up as ‘mbvpn’ when selecting a network interface