I cannot for the life of me understand the thought process with this. Avast managers sit down and say "hey guys and gals, we need to monetise our free service. Shall we just install some new software without warning and then ask for some money?" ...it really is beyond moronic. If YOU'D ASKED US if we wanted a VPN service installed then at least we'd have had a choice, but no, you decided to be dumb in the interests of your bank account. I've been using Avast for donkeys years and have recommended and installed it on so, so many friends and families pc's (instead of AVG), but it's hard to trust you after this stupid stunt. It's like the Amazon Prime 30 day trial thing, where they hope users forget to cancel the trial...except that they were at least asked in the first place. Very, very, very disappointing, not to say annoying too. 1 out of 10. Must try harder.