Remove Aartemis.com Redirect Virus Step by Step

Introduction of Aartemis.com

Aartemis.com has been classified as a browser hijacker virus that can sneak into your system secretly. Normally, Aartemis.com mainly attacks Google Chrome. Aartemis.com is also able to hijack other web browsers, like IE, Firefox and Safari. Therefore, even though you don’t use Chrome, you still need to be cautious about Aartemis.com.

As a vicious infection, Aartemis.com can trigger a series of problems and mess up your PC in a short time. To begin with, it stealthily modifies browsers and DNS settings, so as to take control of your web browser and make it work abnormally. Then, you will find your homepage is changed and various security alerts show up constantly. Before eliminating Aartemis.com and fix the registry, can you regain the original browser settings.

Secondly, because of Aartemis.com, your PC runs slow and many malfunctions occur, including BSOD, freezes, crashes and Internet connection failures. Thirdly, in addition to pop-up messages, there will be numerous advertisements appearing on your screen. Those ads are all suspicious and may bring in additional malware. Moreover, the longer Aartemis.com stays in your system, the more harm it do. On one hand, it monitors surfing activities, as well as steals confidential information on the sly. On the other hand, it helps hackers to access the infected machine remotely, which make all your privacy be confronted with the risk of exposure. In conclusion, taking consideration of Aartemis.com’s negative effects, you are supposed to get rid of it immediately.

Major symptoms of Aartemis.com

a.       Your start page will be replaced by Aartemis.com without asking permission

b.      Every now and then, popups will show up to disturb your Internet activities

c.       Opening a new tab or clicking a link will result in Aartemis.com

d.      No matter what you are search for, Aartemis.com displays irrelevant information

e.       Your browsers are always redirected.

Solution to uninstall Aartemis.com efficiently

Commonly, this kind of adware can use rootkit technology to hide inside the system. So many antivirus programs cannot detect it and remove it completely. For this reason, you should carry out a manual removal. Please read the following guide carefully and remove Aartemis.com right now.

Step one: make all vicious items disabled.

1.      Press Window+R at the same time, then type “msconfig” in the box of “Run” and click OK

2.      Select Startup and look for all malicious items that are related to Aartemis.com, and stop them

Step two: Uninstall this program from Control Panel

For Win7 and Win Vista

Click Start menu, choose Control Panel, then double click Programs( and Features). Go to find out Aartemis.com, and uninstall it.

For Win XP

Go to Start menu, Select “Settings”, and then go to Control Panel. After that, open “Add or Remove Programs”. In there, find out Aartemis.com and remove it.

Step three: Get rid of extensions and add-ons and restore the browser

For Internet Explorer users

1.      Go to “Tools”

2.      Select Manage Add-ons

3.      Select “Search Providers”, then choose Google or Bring from the list to set it as your default search engine.

4.      Go to Tools, go to Internet Options. Then, click General tab to choose a website like Google.com and don’t forget to save the modifications by clicking OK.

For Google Chrome users

1.      Go to “Customize and control”>Settings

2.      Select “Basic Options”

3.      Set Google.com as your homepage, or you also can click “Manage Search Engines…”to select other website.

4.      Choose Google as your default search engine

5.      Select the “Search Result” and click “X” to remove it.

For Mozilla Firefox users

1.      Click magnifier, then select “Manage Search Engine…”

2.      Find out Search Result from that list and remove it, and then click OK.

3.      Go to “Tools”>click Options. Then, in General Tab, reset the homepage and search engine to your favorite site

Step four: Remove all files and registry entries related to Aartemis.com

To open the Registry Editor, you can click start menu and click run. Then, type regedit in the box and click ok.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Current\Winlogon\”Shell” = 

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\

%Programs%

Attention: you need to be careful when perform the above steps, for every mistake will result in other complicate system problems. Or you can download an automatic removal tool to get rid of this virus completely.