How to remove GreatSave4U extension from Google Chrome? - windows

I am using Google chrome in my Windows7 machine, i found some extension GreatSave4U in Google Chrome browser which i tried to remove by the following way..
Launch the browser and simultaneously tap Alt+F.
In the appeared menu move to Tools and then click Extensions.
Click the recycle bin icon on the right of the undesirable plugin and select Remove.
It is removed and i am not getting any ads but when i am closing that instance of browser and restarting browser it again appear in extension list and displaying unwanted ads like Virus.
How to fix this issue?
EDIT:-
Contents of chrome://version/
> Google Chrome 41.0.2272.101 (Official Build) m
> Revision 0c9975a0ae4c55b8530ec3193c21ed54b96cbe88-refs/branch-heads/2272#{#437}
> OS Windows Blink 537.36 (#191727) JavaScript V8 4.1.0.21
> Flash 17.0.0.134 User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64)
> AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.101
> Safari/537.36 Command
> Line "C:\Users\sjoshi\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"
> --flag-switches-begin --enable-experimental-extension-apis --flag-switches-end Executable Path C:\Users\sjoshi\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
> Profile Path C:\Users\sjoshi\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User
> Data\Default Variations 74785582-3f4a17df 22fd1d6c-7461cf66
> e950616e-ca7d8d80 e9f4800b-39c30599 8afebf76-77d7928 19f73432-ca7d8d80
> 76b48ab8-a2567007 c70841c8-a2567007 195ce1b5-d93a0620
> 4b406b23-3f4a17df 1d3ad72e-3f4a17df 9e5c75f1-8b3c5d32
> f79cb77b-3d47f4f4 ca65a9fe-91ac3782 4ea303a6-7a1ae6ac
> 61544484-ca7d8d80 a6f20d5c-6355c4e9 7aa46da5-ca7d8d80
> 9736de91-ca7d8d80 ea1014b7-dd21eb5a 244ca1ac-4ad60575
> f47ae82a-746c2ad4 3ac60855-486e2a9c f296190c-4c073154
> 4442aae2-75cb33fc ed1d377-e1cc0f14 75f0f0a0-a5822863 e2b18481-6bdfffe7
> e7e71889-4ad60575 58a405fc-669a04e0 cbf0c14e-bf3e6cfd
> af644a23-3f4a17df

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