Dns hijacking with avast 16.2?

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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hi there. i just updated to avast 16.2, rebooted the pc and avast network scan reported a dns hijacking happening…. and sure enough the dns my pc was sending requests to was “15.161.99.28” instead of the Quad9 ones. so i opened perfmon and saw that the only exe with a connection with that ip was avast itself! after uninstalling avast my pc resumed using the quad9 dns as normal.

anyone else with this problem? is it a bug or someone sneaked a dns hijacker in avast 16.2? It only happened after updating.

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Are you sure you mean 16.2 and not 26.2 as in the signature below my post ?

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i’m sorry, i uninstalled before taking note of the version. it was the last one though, at least as of the time of the posting.

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I thought that may be the case, unfortunately there isn’t a way for you to gather information and or images of the problem. So others can try and investigate.

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sorry but i’m not trusting leaving the latest version of avast installed for now. i hope someone else can be more helpful…