How to remove GameVance

Thursday, June 18th, 2009 at 3:17 am

GameVance description

GameVance a.k.a. Game Vance is adware that is installed secretly as a bonus of gaming software. In other words, you download GameVance application to play some kind of computer game and all of sudden you receive numerous pop-ups that advertise various products and services. Basically, people can’t even play the games they downloaded because Game Vance loads advertisements all over the screen.

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GameVance doesn’t steal personal information and it doesn’t pose as a security risk.

Get rid of GameVance

How to manually remove GameVance

To remove GameVance spyware you must block GameVance sites, stop and remove processes, unregister DLL files, search and delete all other GameVance files and registry utility. Follow the GameVance detection and removal instructions below.

The most typical software removal method is to remove GameVance by using "Add or Remove Programs" service. However there may be hidden GameVance files, running processes and registries in your computer, so GameVance may recreate all other files after reboot.

GameVance manual removal instructions

Stop and remove GameVance processes:
gamevance32.exe
gvun.exe
Read more how to kill GameVance processes

Locate and delete GameVance registry entries:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Gamevance
HKLM\Software\Classes\clsid\{7370F91F-6994-4595-9949-601FA2261C8D}
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{7370F91F-6994-4595-9949-601FA2261C8D}
HKLM\Software\Classes\Gamevance.Linker
HKLM\Software\Classes\Gamevance.Linker.1
HKCU\Software\gvtl
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Gamevance
Read more how to delete GameVance registry entries
Download RegistryBooster 2010 to scan errors caused by GameVance

Search and unregister GameVance DLL libraries:
gvtl.dll
gamevancelib32.dll
Read more how to unregister GameVance DLL files

Detect and delete other GameVance files:
%ProgramFiles%\gamevance\gamevancelib32.dll
%ProgramFiles%\gamevance\gamevance32.exe
%ProgramFiles%\gamevance\gvun.exe
%ProgramFiles%\gamevance\ars.cfg
%ProgramFiles%\gamevance\ars.cfg
%ProgramFiles%\gamevance\icon.ico
%ProgramFiles%\gamevance\gvtl.dll

We strongly recommend you to use spyware remover to track GameVance and automaticaly remove GameVance processes, registries and files as well as other spyware threats.


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