Gamevance is gaming software you can download online — Gamevance.com sound familiar? — to play free games. And when I say “free,” I mean “paid for by advertising.” Gamevance loads pop-up ads onto a large chunk of your screen’s left-hand corner. While Gamevance isn’t a security threat, ads by Gamevance may slow your computer so much that you’re unable to play their free games.

The most popular game with Gamevance users is How Many Ways Can You Set Your Computer On Fire to Kill Pop-Up Ads by Gamevance.

Let me show you how to uninstall Gamevance before you get there, though.

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