Do you know what Giant Savings Adware is?
Giant Savings Adware is a browser add-on that is supposedly able to improve your online shopping experience. The official add-on website at giant-savings.com says that this app maximize your savings online. When you have this add-on installed, you are constantly prompted about various coupon deals by the biggest retailers online, thus allowing you to save money and get the item you want at the optimal price. However, you should be cautious about Giant Savings Adware, because this browser extension also has adware features (as you can tell from its name), and it is for the best to remove Giant Savings Adware from your computer before it becomes a cause of some serious trouble.
Although you can easily install Giant Savings Adware on your computer via its official website, it is a lot more common to get this extension installed together with other freeware. Free software applications that are available online are often bundled with random add-ons and extensions that are not always useful. For example, some users reported having installed Giant Savings Adware together with Babylon Toolbar after they have downloaded an MS Office add-in PDF Complete. It proves that extensions and add-ins often come in packs, so you have to be extremely careful about what you install on your computer.
Giant Savings Adware is not a computer virus, but it can cause a serious problem, if it is exploited by a third party. Not to mention that you cannot choose a custom installation, and once Giant Savings Adware gets into your system, you will experience browser redirections that might easily lead you to corrupted websites hosting malware. Therefore, you should refer to the manual removal instructions at giant-savings.com to uninstall Giant Savings Adware, or simply follow the instructions below:
Remove Giant Savings Adware from Windows
Windows XP
Giant Savings Adware screenshot
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1. Go to Start Menu –> Control Panel –> Add or Remove Programs.
2. Select Great Savings and click “Uninstall”.
Windows Vista & Windows 7
1. Go to Start Menu –> Control Panel –> Uninstall a program.
2. Select Great Savings and click “Uninstall”.
Windows 8
1. Right-click the bottom left corner of your screen.
2. Choose Control Panel from the context menu.
3. Go to Uninstall a program.
4. Highlight Great Savings and click “Uninstall”.
Remove Giant Savings Adware from your browser
Google Chrome
- Click the 3-bar icon.
- Go to Settings –> Extensions.
- Click Giant Savings and remove it from the list.
Mozilla Firefox
- Click the Firefox icon --> Add-ons.
- Look for Giant Savings under the Extensions tab and select to remove it.
Internet Explorer
- Go to Tools –> Manage add-ons.
- Click Giant Savings under Toolbars & Extensions list and remove it.
After manual removal, restart your browser and then launch a full system scan with a legitimate antimalware tool (such as SpyHunter), because there might be malicious files remaining in your system. Protect your computer from similar intruders.
In non-techie terms:
Giant Savings Adware is a browser extension that is supposed to save your money, but installing it results in forceful redirections and other undesirable system behavior that is better to avoid. We recommend removing Giant Savings Adware from your system manually, and then performing a full system scan with a legitimate antimalware tool, to check for possible malicious infections.