Should I block it?

98%

Yes, 98% block recommendation.

Possible reasons:

Multiple malware detections

Performance resource utilization

Relationships

giant savings.dll (Giant Savings by Awesome Apps)

giant savings-bg.exe

Giant Savings by Awesome Apps (Signed)

Remove giant savings-bg.exe

Version:	1.1.151.36
MD5:	c5af2f30e7c4abf18a132d78f8f05403
SHA1:	eb4569f308cbfd1c2e521851de318e458b16acc0
SHA256:	b474f516176d716004e037a3bc9f864119fd4fdf3e01b5109f977a2aa6d2e76a

Warning 15 antivirus scanners has detected malware.

What is giant savings-bg.exe?

Giant Savings exe (giant savings-bg.exe) is a background process that is loaded with Internet Explorer via the Giant Savings BHO. Giant Savings is an adware type program that has causes serious performance issues to your PC by installing a number of plug-ins and add-ins to your web browser and Windows. It injects ads directly by modifying web pages based on your surfing habits.

About giant savings-bg.exe (from Awesome Apps)

“Giant Savings takes couponing to the next level by providing users with an easy to use coupon list they can use to save as they browse. Savings in a single click. The sad truth about online shopping i”

Details

File name:	giant savings-bg.exe
Publisher:	215 Apps
Product name:	Giant Savings
Description:	Giant Savings exe
Typical file path:	C:\Program Files\giant savings\giant savings-bg.exe
Original name:	Giant Savings.exe
File version:	1.1.151.36
Size:	886.38 KB (907,648 bytes)
Certificate
Issued to:	Awesome Apps
Authority (CA):	Thawte
Effective date:	Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Expiration date:	Thursday, August 29, 2013
Digital DNA
PE subsystem:	Windows GUI
File packed:	No
.NET CLR:	No

More details

Programs

The following program will install this file

Giant Savings

215 Apps

85% remove

Giant Savings from 215 Apps (Amazing Apps/50onRed) installs a web browser extension (Internet Explorer Browser Helper Object) to view web pages loaded and looks for affiliated merchants in order to possibly provide better pricing or alternative deals on a given product or merchant. Basically if Giant Savings (215 Apps) has a pre-arranged affiliate relationship with a similar merchant it will alert you when you visit through your web bro...

Network connections

[UDP] listens on port 49883

Malware detections

Based on 40+ industry antivirus scanners, 15 of them detected the following malware.

Antivirus engine	Engine version	Detection
AVG	2014.0.3629	Suspicion: unknown virus
BitDefender	7.2	Adware.Agent.NNP
Dr.Web	7.0.4.09250	Adware.Plugin.14
F-Secure	11.0.19020.35	Adware.Agent.NNP
G Data	13.4.22	Adware.Agent.NNP
Ikarus	T3.1.3.5.0	AdWare.Agent
Kingsoft	2013.1.8.219	Win32.Troj.Agent.tq.(kcloud)
eScan by MicroWorld	12.0.250.0	Adware.Agent.NNP
NANO AntiVirus	0.22.8.49711	Trojan.Win32.Plugin.batpwq
nProtect	2013-01-22.01	Trojan/W32.Agent.907648.B
Sophos	4.85.0	AppRider
Trend Micro HouseCall	9.700.0.1001	TROJ_GEN.RCBH1J3
Vba32 AntiVirus	3.12.18.4	Trojan.Agent.aidw
VIPRE Antivirus	15164	GamePlayLabs (v)
ViRobot	2011.4.7.4223	Trojan.Win32.A.Agent.907648

Resource utilization

(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)

Averages

CPU
Total CPU:	0.73203113%	0.028634%
Kernel CPU:	0.62075604%	0.013761%
User CPU:	0.11127509%	0.014873%
Kernel CPU time:	821 ms/min	100,923,805ms/min
Memory
Private memory:	6.05 MB	21.59 MB
Private (maximum):	12.28 MB
Private (minimum):	12.27 MB
Non-paged memory:	6.05 MB	21.59 MB
Virtual memory:	80.86 MB	140.96 MB
Virtual memory (peak):	82.86 MB	169.69 MB
Working set:	12.28 MB	18.61 MB
Working set (peak):	14.74 MB	37.95 MB
Resource allocations
Threads:	14	12
Handles:	255	600
GUI GDI count:	9	103
GUI GDI peak:	11	142
GUI USER count:	8	49
GUI USER peak:	11	71

Process properties

Integrety level:	Low
Platform:	32-bit
Command line:	"C:\Program Files\giant savings\giant savings-bg.exe" /createbg
Owner:	User
Parent process:	iexplore.exe (by Microsoft)

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