Giant-search.com Redirects - How to remove

If your search queries are unexpectedly redirected to a little site called giant-search.com, you’d be right to be suspicious. One of the main features of browser hijacking is unexpected redirects. And hijacking itself is a symptom of a malware infection, so though giant-search.com is not a very big deal, it’s an indication of a more serious problem. Viruses are catchable and removable, but they should be dealt with quickly before they cause any serious problems.

Giant-search.com is similar to WeKnow.ac, SearchMine.net, InformationVine.com. These search engines are all very bare and basic, lacking in features and quality when compared with mainstream search engines. And what they lack in quality, they don’t make up with innovation. So, there doesn’t seem to be any good reason for giant-search.com to be used by anyone. And yet, people have their browsers load this webpage.

To get rid of giant-search.com redirects:

• Scan your computer for unwanted or suspicious programs and remove them.
• Review your browser add-ons and remove the suspicious ones.
• Review your browser settings and change them to what you want them to be.

Is this website dangerous?

Giant-search.com itself doesn’t seem to be really dangerous. It is distracting, it wastes people’s time, and it’s completely unwanted, but a visit there will not result in any immediate virus infection. After all, rather than spread viruses, browser hijackers tend to focus on advertising and making their money by forcing people to view their ads on their website.

This low-quality (in my opinion) search engine has a standard privacy policy that reveals that basic data about how people use their website is collected, such as your IP, your browser, and which websites you visit. This is more evidence means that giant-search.com is (or will be) monetized with ads — data about your browsing habits is valuable to advertisers.

A few ads isn’t the problem with giant-search.com, though. It’s the unexpected and unwanted installation. People shouldn’t have to deal with their search engine changing without even a warning. Trustwave has flagged it for a reason.

Indeed, people don’t use giant-search.com because they like it — there is nothing to like. Instead, users find it already hijacking their browsers. You can get back control of your browser easily, by accessing your browser settings and restoring them to what they should be (the guide below has specific instructions for each browser).

How was giant-search.com installed?

People access giant-search.com mostly by being redirected to it, but whether that happens thanks to an adware virus, a malicious browser add-on, or ads online, only taking care of the root problem will solve it in the long term.

Freeware sites that host thousands of free applications might monetize this process by simply taking a program that people want and including other, potentially unwanted, programs that pay for each installation. This incentivizes distributors to make the additional programs likely to be installed: agreed to by default, hidden in skippable options, implied to be needed for the main program to work correctly. If giant-search.com started annoying you shortly after you downloaded another program, you should look at its setup file more carefully.

Ads by malicious advertising networks promote browser hijackers all the time. Most of those hijackers come in the form of browser extensions. If only a single browser of yours is redirected to giant-search.com, that shows that the problem is probably an extension. Which website or program caused you to install the add-on might not be clear, but you can always remove an unwanted add-on (the instructions are below).

If programs are being installed on your computer against your will, if that happens more than once, and you haven’t downloaded and installed any bundlers, that could mean that a virus is lurking on your computer, downloading and installing programs in the background. The symptoms include your device running slower than usual, unfamiliar letters being sent out of your email address, and memory on your disk being used up without a reason. Such a serious virus is unlikely but worth keeping in mind.

How to remove giant-search.com

You will stop being redirected to giant-search.com if the browser settings are fixed, but the program that initially caused the changes should also be removed so that it doesn’t repeat the hijacking. When someone is seeing a program that they removed return again and again, it’s a good indication that the real offender is still active on the computer. Use a strong antivirus program (Spyhunter) to find and remove this application. Antivirus programs don’t just catch viruses — they also recognize PUPs, which are considered unwanted because they put your computer at risk of harm.

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How to remove Giant-search.com using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Giant-search.com Redirects install some of their components as regular Windows programs as well as additional software. This part of malware can be uninstalled from the Control Panel. To access it, do the following.

• Start→Control Panel (older Windows) or press Windows Key→Search and enter Control Panel and then press Enter (Windows 8, Windows 10).
• Choose Uninstall Program (if you don't see it, click in the upper right next to "View by" and select Category).
• Go through the list of programs and select entries related to Giant-search.com . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Giant-search.com Redirects easier to find.
• Click the Uninstall button. If you're asked if you really want to remove the program, click Yes.
• In many cases anti-malware programs are better at detecting related parasites, thus I recommend installing Spyhunter to identify other programs that might be a part of this infection.

How to remove Giant-search.com from macOS

Delete Giant-search.com Redirects from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Giant-search.com app.
5. Select it and right-click it (or hold the Ctrl and click the left mouse button).
6. In the dropdown, click Move to Bin/Trash. You might be asked to provide your login password.

TopHow To remove Giant-search.com Redirects from Google Chrome:

• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select More Tools→Extensions
  
• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.
  
• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select Settings
  
• Select Manage Search engines
  
• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list
  
• Go back to settings. On Startup choose Open blank page (you can remove undesired pages from the set pages link too).
• If your homepage was changed, click on Chrome menu on the top right corner, select Settings. Select Open a specific page or set of pages and click on Set pages.
  
• Delete malicious search websites at a new Startup pages window by clicking “X” next to them.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Giant-search.com Redirects, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on a Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on theReset browser settings button.
  
• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How To remove Giant-search.com Redirects from Firefox:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla window and select the “Add-ons” icon (Or press Ctrl+Shift+A on your keyboard).
  
• Go through Extensions and Addons list, remove everything Giant-search.com Redirects related and items you do not recognise. If you do not know the extension and it is not made by Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Oracle or Adobe then you probably do not need it.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on the Firefox menu in the top right corner, select Options → General. Enter a preferable URL to the homepage field and click Restore to Default.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Giant-search.com, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla Firefox window. Click on the Help button.
  
• ChooseTroubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on theReset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program to identify malicious entries.

How to remove Giant-search.com Redirects from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.

• Click on the three-dot menu on the browser toolbar and Select Settings

• Select Privacy and Services and scroll down. Press on Address bar.

• Choose Manage search engines.

• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list: open the three-dot menu and choose Remove.

• Go back to Settings. Open On start-up.
• Delete malicious search websites at Open specific page or pages by opening the three-dot menu and clicking Delete.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Giant-search.com Redirects, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings

• Click on Edge's menu button and select Settings. Click on the Reset Settings button on the left.
• Press the Restore settings to their default values option.

• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How to remove Giant-search.com Redirects from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall Giant-search.com and other suspicious extensions.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences and choose General tab. Enter preferable URL to the homepage field.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings(older versions) If you are still experiencing any issues related to Giant-search.com Redirects, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Reset Safari…
  
• Select which options you want to reset (usually all of them come preselected) and click on the Reset button.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.