GiffySocial Toolbar Removal Guide

GiffySocial Toolbar is an application that is meant to provide you with great services, but our research team views it as a potentially unwanted program (PUP). It is best to remove it from your operating system (for Internet Explorer users) and browsers (for Firefox and Chrome users) as soon as it is installed. Of course, if you are still thinking about installing it, we suggest you change your mind. That being said, you do not need to trust our word. Instead, read this report to learn what our malware experts have found out when researching and analyzing this suspicious extension in our internal lab. If you are not interested, find the guide that shows how to delete GiffySocial Toolbar below. If you are interested, keep reading, and do not forget that you can continue the discussion in the comments area.

In the past, GiffySocial Toolbar was offered to Chrome users via the Chrome web store, but this installer no longer exists. Nonetheless, Internet Explorer and Firefox users can still download the PUP from its official website, giffysocial.com/index.jhtml. According to this website, the app can help you find the “best gifs,” as well as provide you with access to a “meme maker” and a “gif maker.” The app is supposed to make viewing and sharing gifs much easier, and that is what might intrigue some people. You might also install it by accident if it comes bundled with something more desirable. Without a doubt, if you have downloaded something by accident, you should delete it right away. Otherwise, research it to make sure that it is not malware that requires immediate removal.

The suspicious GiffySocial Toolbar is introduced to users by Mindspark Interactive Network, and this company stands behind LearnTheLyrics Toolbar, WeatherBlink Toolbar, and many other toolbars. Due to this, it is no surprise that the one we are discussing in this report represents MyWay Search, a search tool that is represented via all Mindspark toolbars. Most users delete the PUP because of this search tool. It is meant to be “enhanced by Google,” but that is no indication that it is trustworthy. In fact, it can showcase sponsored links and modified Google Search results via search.myway.com, and that is why we encourage you to remove it. Of course, if you believe that the search tool is trustworthy, it is unlikely that you will pay attention to other suspicious things linked to the PUP.

Our researchers do not believe GiffySocial Toolbar to be a very useful tool. Sure, it provides easy-access links to giphy.com, gmail.com, yahoo.com, facebook.com, youtube.com, and a bunch of other sites, and it displays gifs via the New Tab page or the homepage, but none of this makes this the PUP highly useful. On top of that, its Privacy Policy reveals that information about all users can be recorded and even shared with third parties. Even if you find the services of GiffySocial Toolbar to be useful, you need to think carefully if you can trust a program that appears to serve undisclosed parties too. If you decide that you cannot, you want to delete this potentially unwanted program immediately.

Do you have experience that could help you remove GiffySocial Toolbar from your operating system and web browsers? Most likely, you do. Glance at the instructions below if you are not sure how to go about this situation. Once you get rid of the PUP, do not forget to scan your operating system to check if other threats exist. In fact, we suggest you scan your system right away because if you discover threats you cannot eliminate on your own, you might decide to install an anti-malware program that could erase GiffySocial Toolbar and other threats automatically. A reliable anti-malware program can do more than just eliminate existing threats. It also can protect your system and you against malware in the future!

How to delete GiffySocial Toolbar

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Launch the browser and enter about:addons into the address bar.
2. Remove the unwanted extension and then restart the browser.

Google Chrome:

1. Launch the browser and enter chrome://extensions into the address bar.
2. Remove the unwanted extension and then restart the browser.

Internet Explorer:

1. Open the Start menu and click Control Panel or type control panel into the search bar (on Windows 10) and click the menu to open it.
2. Go to the Uninstall a program menu and then Uninstall the unwanted application.