Game crash Trojan detected.....

BCStone · 07-31-2013, 04:46 PM

I was in the middle of playing out a game on OOTP14 when all of a sudden my game crashed to my desktop. I went to start the game again and when I double clicked the game shortcut on my desktop I received a popup that said my shortcut had been changed or removed and now cannot get back into my game. I rebooted my computer to see if it would recover and it did not. I then received notice from my anti virus that it had detected a Trojan in OOTP13 which I wasn't playing nor have I played it for a couple months now..The Trojan was this "Artemis!2B2D814F15A8" which I looked up and there is no definition for this. I'm stumped can anybody help get my league back. Can I reinstall game over my present and keep my present league. I also ran virus scans on version 13 & 14 and they came out clean,

D-BacksJosh · 07-31-2013, 04:56 PM

Are you using McAfee antivirus?

BCStone · 07-31-2013, 05:01 PM

Yes I am. I had been online just before I started playing the game. The only website I visited was this one.

D-BacksJosh · 07-31-2013, 05:14 PM

Might be a false positive from McAfee's 'Artemis' engine. I found this:

"If you use McAfee antivirus products, you may have recently received and alert saying that your computer is infected with the Artemis Trojan. You aren’t alone; lots and lots of computer users have seen this alert.

If your McAfee antivirus tells you that you have the Artemis Trojan, you shouldn’t panic. There is a very good chance that you aren’t infected at all. Artemis is the name of this antivirus provider’s heuristic tool for detecting malware. All of these new threats can’t be kept up with on a name by name basis, so McAfee has started to scan your system for things that simply point to a potential infection.

When something that the system thinks is possibly a threat, it reports it to the computer user as a type of Artemis Trojan. This means that your virus protection is already on the case, trying to keep your PC safe and healthy. A lot of these threats are simply false positives, and a good percentage of the alerts are flagging perfectly safe programs and files."

Trojan Watch » What is Artemis Trojan? » Trojan Watch

If I were you I would download Malwarebytes and run a scan. This program is excellent in removing viruses (if you actually have one) and its free on top of that. You can download it here:

Malwarebytes : Malwarebytes Anti-Malware removes malware including viruses, spyware, worms and trojans, plus it protects your computer

Not advising this, but I don't even use an 'anti-virus' and haven't for many years. A lot of them are like viruses themselves, they embed themselves into the registry and they use a lot of system resources. I haven't been infected with a virus in a long time simply because I am careful of what I click on the internet, and the few times I have been infected Malwarebytes removed the problem.

07-31-2013, 04:46 PM	#1
BCStone Minors (Double A) Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 108	Game crash Trojan detected..... I was in the middle of playing out a game on OOTP14 when all of a sudden my game crashed to my desktop. I went to start the game again and when I double clicked the game shortcut on my desktop I received a popup that said my shortcut had been changed or removed and now cannot get back into my game. I rebooted my computer to see if it would recover and it did not. I then received notice from my anti virus that it had detected a Trojan in OOTP13 which I wasn't playing nor have I played it for a couple months now..The Trojan was this "Artemis!2B2D814F15A8" which I looked up and there is no definition for this. I'm stumped can anybody help get my league back. Can I reinstall game over my present and keep my present league. I also ran virus scans on version 13 & 14 and they came out clean,

07-31-2013, 04:56 PM	#2
D-BacksJosh Banned Join Date: May 2011 Location: Arizona Posts: 875	Are you using McAfee antivirus?

07-31-2013, 05:01 PM	#3
BCStone Minors (Double A) Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 108	Yes I am. I had been online just before I started playing the game. The only website I visited was this one.

07-31-2013, 05:14 PM	#4
D-BacksJosh Banned Join Date: May 2011 Location: Arizona Posts: 875	Might be a false positive from McAfee's 'Artemis' engine. I found this: "If you use McAfee antivirus products, you may have recently received and alert saying that your computer is infected with the Artemis Trojan. You aren’t alone; lots and lots of computer users have seen this alert. If your McAfee antivirus tells you that you have the Artemis Trojan, you shouldn’t panic. There is a very good chance that you aren’t infected at all. Artemis is the name of this antivirus provider’s heuristic tool for detecting malware. All of these new threats can’t be kept up with on a name by name basis, so McAfee has started to scan your system for things that simply point to a potential infection. When something that the system thinks is possibly a threat, it reports it to the computer user as a type of Artemis Trojan. This means that your virus protection is already on the case, trying to keep your PC safe and healthy. A lot of these threats are simply false positives, and a good percentage of the alerts are flagging perfectly safe programs and files." Trojan Watch » What is Artemis Trojan? » Trojan Watch If I were you I would download Malwarebytes and run a scan. This program is excellent in removing viruses (if you actually have one) and its free on top of that. You can download it here: Malwarebytes : Malwarebytes Anti-Malware removes malware including viruses, spyware, worms and trojans, plus it protects your computer Not advising this, but I don't even use an 'anti-virus' and haven't for many years. A lot of them are like viruses themselves, they embed themselves into the registry and they use a lot of system resources. I haven't been infected with a virus in a long time simply because I am careful of what I click on the internet, and the few times I have been infected Malwarebytes removed the problem.