diff --git a/src/alert.cpp b/src/alert.cpp
index 4d832da7c..99f6472e9 100644
--- a/src/alert.cpp
+++ b/src/alert.cpp
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ bool CAlert::AppliesTo(int nVersion, const std::string& strSubVerIn) const
 
 bool CAlert::AppliesToMe() const
 {
-    return AppliesTo(PROTOCOL_VERSION, FormatSubVersion(CLIENT_NAME, CLIENT_VERSION, std::vector<std::string>()));
+    return AppliesTo(PROTOCOL_VERSION, FormatSubVersion(GetArg("-clientname","MagicBean"), CLIENT_VERSION, std::vector<std::string>()));
 }
 
 bool CAlert::RelayTo(CNode* pnode) const
diff --git a/src/init.cpp b/src/init.cpp
index 4ba38749a..0d55e30b0 100644
--- a/src/init.cpp
+++ b/src/init.cpp
@@ -1349,7 +1349,7 @@ bool AppInit2(boost::thread_group& threadGroup, CScheduler& scheduler)
             return InitError(strprintf("User Agent comment (%s) contains unsafe characters.", cmt));
         uacomments.push_back(SanitizeString(cmt, SAFE_CHARS_UA_COMMENT));
     }
-    strSubVersion = FormatSubVersion(CLIENT_NAME, CLIENT_VERSION, uacomments);
+    strSubVersion = FormatSubVersion(GetArg("-clientname","MagicBean"), CLIENT_VERSION, uacomments);
     if (strSubVersion.size() > MAX_SUBVERSION_LENGTH) {
         return InitError(strprintf("Total length of network version string %i exceeds maximum of %i characters. Reduce the number and/or size of uacomments.",
             strSubVersion.size(), MAX_SUBVERSION_LENGTH));
diff --git a/src/rpc/net.cpp b/src/rpc/net.cpp
index 56f221a37..f7d7c90cb 100644
--- a/src/rpc/net.cpp
+++ b/src/rpc/net.cpp
@@ -484,7 +484,7 @@ UniValue getdeprecationinfo(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp)
     UniValue obj(UniValue::VOBJ);
     obj.push_back(Pair("version", CLIENT_VERSION));
     obj.push_back(Pair("subversion",
-        FormatSubVersion(CLIENT_NAME, CLIENT_VERSION, std::vector<string>())));
+        FormatSubVersion(GetArg("-clientname","MagicBean"), CLIENT_VERSION, std::vector<string>())));
     obj.push_back(Pair("deprecationheight", DEPRECATION_HEIGHT));
 
     return obj;