Common Dots is a typical fake application that has no function whatsoever apart from filling up your computer screen with useless and potentially unreliable third-party ads. Thus, our research team has classified it as adware. It seems that schemers’ creativity is an endless sea of ideas since they come up with new ones every single day. But, the potential dangers they hold is the same. Third-party ads cannot be warranted to be all reliable and safe. Therefore, you are better off knowing what you are risking if you have been infected with this adware and you face these ads every time you go surfing the net. Due to the possible exposure to malicious content and infections, we advise you to delete Common Dots immediately.
There is a website, commondots.info, that sort of promotes this application, but it rather resembles a semi-functional site for non-color blind people only; it is very hard to realize there are actually links in the left panel. But apart from a general EULA and Privacy Policy that might be used for all the clones developed by the same company, you cannot find out anything else about the alleged “browser software”. There is one thing you learn though: If you do not want to waste time, connect the dots with Common Dots. However, even if you click on the only button on the screen labeled “Learn more Today”, what you will get is a contact page to send a message.
Common Dots may use the well-established means of transportation preferred by other clones built on the Injekt engine, including Sale Charger, Assist Point, and Positive Finds, which is called software bundling. These packages might easily contain several infections that can make your life miserable. If you have installed a freeware bundles recently, you had better remove Common Dots and all other related infections, as well.
Since Common Dots is a mysterious application, we do not know much about, we can only tell you what it may do as an adware program. It collects information about your online activities and also shares it with third parties. Based on this, you will see targeted advertisements to make sure that you will click on them. Ad-supported programs generate income by the number of your clicks on these ads. But you need to know that not all of them can be trusted. You might easily end up with more infections or even as a victim of an online scam. In order to make sure you are not exposed to these things, you should remove Common Dots now.
After all the shocking news, here is something you will be happy about. It is quite simple to get rid of Common Dots. You just have to find it in the installed programs list in Control Panel and uninstall it. Keep in mind that it may have arrived in the company of other malware infections. You must act now, before those start to cause more visible problems for you. We suggest using a professional antimalware application to automatically detect and eliminate all threats that are present on your PC.
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