What is Giant Savings?
Many adware applications play on people’s tending to save money and get discounts. Giant Savings operates in the same field – it promises users to make the online shopping easier with presenting notifications about available discounts and coupons. Broadly speaking, Giant Savings performs the stated function, however it doesn’t help people to save money. Vice versa, having Giant Savings on the computer will worsen the browsing. Instead of showing users valid discounts, the adware generates them without any real basis. The content of the ads is chosen according to the latest search queries of the user. The pop-ups, banners and other types of commercials are connected with the sites of Giant Savings partners, which as a rule contain useless information, or the materials that may harm your system. To secure your system we recommend to remove Giant Savings.
How Giant Savings gets on your PC?
Rarely, but still possible that users download the application deluded with its false description and benefits. The situation could be easily avoided if victims had read the reviews on the Internet, since there are tons of articles and complains about Giant Savings malware nature. Another way of infection with Giant savings is unattentive installation of other software. Luckily, this can be prevented too. The installations hiding malware offer default and Custom installation modes. You should choose the latter, since it reveals all additional components and opportunities to decline them.
How to remove Giant Savings from your computer?
To uninstall Giant Savings remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and regkeys.
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You can try both of these products to remove Giant Savings
Or uninstall Giant Savings manually.
Step 1: Remove Giant Savings from Control Panel
Windows XP:
- Click Start.
- Control Panel.
- Then click Add or Remove Programs.
- Find Giant Savings.
- Click Uninstall.
Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows XP.
Windows 7/Windows Vista:
- Click Start.
- Then Control Panel.
- Click Uninstall a Program.
- Find Giant Savings and click Uninstall.
Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 7.
Windows 8/Windows 8.1:
- Open the Menu.
- Click Search.
- After that click Apps.
- Then Control Panel.
- Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
- Find Giant Savings, select it and click Uninstall.
Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 8 (8.1).
Windows 10:
- Click on the Start button (or press the Windows key) to open the Start menu, click on the Settings at the top.
- Click on App & features on the left menu.
- On the right side, locate Giant Savings and click it, then click on the Uninstall button.
- Click on Uninstall to confirm.
Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 10
Note: If you can’t find required program, sort programs by date in Control panel and search for last installed programs.
After that remove Giant Savings from your browser.
Step 2: Remove Giant Savings from browsers
Google Chrome:
- Open Google Chrome
- Push Alt + F.
- Click Tools.
- Choose Extensions.
- Find Giant Savings.
- Click the trash can icon to remove it.
Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.
Mozilla Firefox:
- Open Firefox.
- Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
- Choose Giant Savings.
- Click Disable or Remove button.
Learn more about removing extensions from Firefox.
Internet Explorer:
- Open IE.
- Push Alt + T.
- Click Manage Add-ons.
- Select Toolbars and Extensions.
- Click Disable Giant Savings.
- Click More information link in the left-bottom corner.
- Click Remove button.
- If this button is grayed out – perform alternative steps.
Learn more about removing extensions from IE.
Step 3: Remove following files and folders of Giant Savings:
Remove following registry entries:
no information
Remove following files:
Giant Savings Extension.dll
Giant Savings Extension-bg.exe
Giant Savings ExtensionGui.exe
Uninstall.exe
Giant Savings-bg.exe
Remove following folders
%PROGRAMFILES%\Giant Savings\