Thanks for holding my hand, much appreciated.
I’m using Comcast dns and Google hasn’t touched them. I’ll look into opendns, seems like I used them onceupon a time.
What does your DNS software do? Any chance that was how Google did their misdeeds?
The small OpenDNS software program runs on the my most used PC and updates my IP address at OpenDNS. If you don't pay extra, your ISP may periodically change your IP address and if OpenDNS doesn't recognize your IP address, it will not know to redirect your access to the internet.
You can set up porn filters and other filters so that the family will be protected from the nasty things on the internet. It works really well. Is it perfect? No, and there are ways around it if you know what you are doing. But for the average user, it works really well. Some small and larger businesses use OpenDNS.
If you have a fixed IP address, it simplifies things a bit. Also, some routers have embedded functions that will do the same as their software however I have never been able to get them to work so I run this program on the one computer.
Best of all, you don't need extra software like netnanny on each of your computers since it is all managed through your router. I like simplicity! And, again it is free or $20 per year.
Normally, a person will not know that their DNS settings have been changed. And apparently it is a easy thing to do — changing your NIC hardware settings without the user knowing it.
I suspect that this is how Google and China control access to the Internet. Services like OpenDNS and Google DNS can block individual sites or whole groups and categories of sites. If you block access to certain sites on the Internet, then you control the flow of information. Lastly, I don't know exactly which software program changed my DNS settings. But they were changed and recently. I had to debug it since my router still had the OpenDNS address settings."