Adware – CommonName WINNET

CommonName is marketed as a 'keywords' service, allowing one to enter simple names instead of URLs. After its original release, the software has become a complicated (and sometimes buggy) search hijacker and adware, aggressively bundled with many third-party apps.

Variants include:
CommonName/Toolbar, CommonName/Agent, CommonName/Mib, CommonName/Zenet, and CommonName Winnet. Versions 4.0 or later of CommonName/Winnet have a separate updating process, which re-registers itself constantly, to make it even harder to remove manually.

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