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<blockquote data-quote="Indingo" data-source="post: 992448" data-attributes="member: 87984">I have been installing and modifying security software for 15 years. I don&#039;t post much on security forums but I have been a lurker from the early days of AVG 7.5. I read every installer and modify my installations so that I am using the minimum amount of modules to do what I need and getting rid of the extras. I was not prompted or given any warning about RealSite or DNS changes while installing Avast. I consider what it did to be DNS hijacking by a security company who wants to sell my data. It&#039;s actually incredibly rude to change a person&#039;s DNS server without permission. It&#039;s like your babysitting agency changing your babysitter while you are at a restaurant and not informing you because (well we know this other person is safe because it&#039;s also our employee so we did not need to inform you of the change).It should come up as a giant popup (Avast wants to change your DNS to enable to RealSite feature, do you accept this change? (Click here for more info). The fact that they don&#039;t is just malicious compliance.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Indingo, post: 992448, member: 87984"] I have been installing and modifying security software for 15 years. I don't post much on security forums but I have been a lurker from the early days of AVG 7.5. I read every installer and modify my installations so that I am using the minimum amount of modules to do what I need and getting rid of the extras. I was not prompted or given any warning about RealSite or DNS changes while installing Avast. I consider what it did to be DNS hijacking by a security company who wants to sell my data. It's actually incredibly rude to change a person's DNS server without permission. It's like your babysitting agency changing your babysitter while you are at a restaurant and not informing you because (well we know this other person is safe because it's also our employee so we did not need to inform you of the change). It should come up as a giant popup (Avast wants to change your DNS to enable to RealSite feature, do you accept this change? (Click here for more info). The fact that they don't is just malicious compliance. [/QUOTE]

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