CommonShare - How to remove

CommonShare is an adware program that floods random computers with tons of advertisements. It was designed by Superweb LLC. The program is installed together with other software without properly disclosing about it. Most of the users have noticed ads by CommonShare after downloading free PDF creators, download managers, video players and similar freeware. If you do not follow the installation steps of such programs carefully, eventually you may agree to download some additional software like CommonShare without even knowing it.

Once your computer is infected, the adware will start displaying various coupons when you browse the Internet. The popups appear out of nowhere promising to save your time and money by providing you the best deals for your purchases online. All of the messages say they are brought by Ads by CommonShare. The promotions shown are targeted to your interests and likes based on your recent search queries to increase the chances that you click on them. Every ad contains a sponsored link, so if you click on it, you will end up visiting some unknown website. The creators of CommonShare get paid for increasing traffic of these pages and improving their page ranking.

Although earning money from affiliate links is very common, CommonShare uses unfair techniques to do that. That is the reason why it is classified as a potentially unwanted program. Besides, once inside the application also tracks your browsing history and search queries in order to improve the relevance of its ads as well as for other marketing purposes. If you have noticed random popups displayed on your Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome, you are highly recommended to remove CommonShare as soon as possible.

Manual removal instructions of CommonShare

Using control panel to remove main CommonShare components and installers

1. Go to Control Panel. On Windows XP/Vista/7. Start -> Control Panel . Then Add/Remove Programs. On Windows 8. Enter Control Panel in search box. In both cases you might have to confirm that you are administrator on this PC.
2. Look for CommonShare and /or similar looking programs there. By default, I recommend removing Yontoo, WebCake, anything “savings” or “coupon” related. Scanning with Anti-Malware programs like Spyhunter or Stopzilla might give good idea what programs you should remove from there as well.
3. Close Control Panel.

Removing CommonShare from Internet Explorer

1. Press gear icon->Manage Add-ons.
2. Go through Toolbars and extensions. Remove everything related to CommonShare and ones you do not know AND made not by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle or Adobe.
3. Close The options.

Removing CommonShare from Firefox

1. Enter about:addons in URL field.
2. Go through Extensions and Addons list, remove everything CommonShare related and ones you do not recognise. If you do not know the extension and it is not made by Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Oracle or Adobe it is a good bet that you do not need it.
3. Optionally, Reset Firefox :
4. Go to Firefox ->Help (Help in menu for OSX users). Troubleshooting Information. Then Reset Firefox.

Removing CommonShare from Chrome

1. Enter chrome://extensions in url field.
2. Go through extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to CommonShare. If unsure, you can disable them temporally.
3. Restart chrome.
4. Optionally, you can go to chrome://settings , press Advanced settings, scroll to the bottom of the list and press Reset browser settings.

NOTE:
If you found an extension that can’t be removed from the browser, it has either to be removed from control panel or with antimalware programs ( like Spyhunter, malwarebytes) or program uninstallers  (like RevoUninstaller).

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