Giant Savings is a browser extension which is widely advertised as a useful tool that can maximize your savings online. This tool, after installation will provide you with various discount coupons for numerous products available for sale online. However, the developers are not mentioning that the Giant Savings will also promote sponsored websites and provide users with pop-up ads and redirects. Therefore, this browser extension is considered as an adware. Giant Savings will not bring any benefit, on contrary it might seriously harm user’s computer and bring a lot of troubles to user. We recommend to remove Giant Savings adware as quickly as possible, before it infects you with other malware.
The developers of Giant Savings adware are honestly stating in their Terms of Service, that the plugin will provide users with sponsored links, banner ads, pop-unders and interstitial ads, coupons and video targeted ads, which may be displayed on a webpage, through their own player. The sponsored websites may also be injected as and in-text links. In other words, if you install the Giant Savings browser plugin you will be spammed by ads and they will appear everywhere. All of the search results will be irrelevant and filled with advertisements. Furthermore, this adware may change system configurations, disable antivirus, change default home page and search engine and create some tasks in Windows Task Scheduler.
Giant Savings can also establish a connection to remote server to transfer user’s personal files, cookies, browsing history to the third parties for commercial purpose. In fact, this malicious action will be performed without user’s authorization in order to be able to create targeted ads. The most dangerous about this adware is that it can redirect user to malicious websites, where he will be tricked into purchasing some unnecessary program or product. Sometimes, those sponsored websites contain malware, Trojans, keyloggers and ransomware and will try to force user to install them on the plea of important updates for Java or Flash player.
Mostly, Giant Savings adware infects user’s system via freeware downloads. Especially, if the freeware is hosted on some dubious software portal or was downloaded through torrent. In this situation the freeware installer is wrapped together with the adware installer and during the installation user will end up installing the whole bundle package. To prevent this scenario, it is recommended to avoid downloading programs from unofficial websites. During the installation always select advanced option and check what additional programs are included in the bundle. Always, read the EULA.
To completely remove Giant Savings adware from your computer, simply follow our step-by-step removal guide written below. You might also want to download our automatic removal tool that will scan your whole system for threats and remove it within few minutes.
Symptoms of Giant Savings infection on your computer can be: computer crashes, unusual homepage or search engine on your browser, unwanted pop-up ads and advertising banners. We recommend to download our automatic removal tool. This removal tool has been tested for Giant Savings threat removal and it is easy to use.
After performing all of the steps above you should have all of your web browsers clean of the GIANT SAVINGS and other suspicious add-ons and extensions. However to complete the removal procedure we strongly advise to scan your computer with antivirus and anti-malware tools like SpyHunter, HitmanPro 32-bit, HitmanPro 64-bit or Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. Those programs might help to you find registry entries of malware and remove them safely.
Well, it removed traces of Giant Savings that other tools missed! I am so glad, thank you very much – Monica Cart
Awesome – I accidentally checked accept to this Giant Savings and couldn’t find a way of getting rid of it, until now! Thank you 🙂 – Matt Brown
YES! Finally made it! I’ve managed to delete the Giant Savings from Mozilla’s add-ons and everything is back to normal now. Thank you for guiding me – Sabine Koch
Thank you again, this is the second time that Giant Savings has sneaked into my system – John Yakob