ARGH

[crazyfurries]

Damnit.

Someone want to pass it around? The Real Life comic site seems to have gotten a bad case of viral attack, and I've picked up something that McAfee won't shut UP about.

Says it's a trojan called Artemis?

Any rate, running all anti-viral programs and updates.

Any an all folken on the friends list with some experience with virii would be more than welcome to tag this and let me know the score.

Especially on how to remove this bastard from Ion, my little green laptop.

Comments

[shenalia.livejournal.com]

What anti-virus and anti-malware programs do you have currently?

[crazyfurries.livejournal.com]

Spybot Search and Destroy and McAfee

[shenalia.livejournal.com]

Alright, start with MalwareBytes Anti-Malware. Very, VERY good scanner program; you can't go wrong with it. It also doesn't sit passively on your system, so it won't conflict with McAfee.

After that, look into grabbing "SUPER AntiSpyware". Spybot is good for immunizing your system to prevent tracking and spyware from getting on your system, but it's not that good at getting rid of the stuff that might already be there.

[aurora77]

When I look up Artemis, I'm seeing info about a McAfee feature named Artemis, so here's a little info about that.
https://community.mcafee.com/docs/DOC-1308

Here are some promising articles/forum threads:
https://community.mcafee.com/thread/6822
http://forums.techguy.org/virus-other-malware-removal/840237-artemis-virus-hjt-included.html
http://www.techbuzz.in/trojan-genericartemis-in-your-computer-how-to-get-rid-of-it.php