Remove Aartemis Portal Site – aartemis.com

Aartemis.com claims of itself to be some sort of a portal site. In reality, if you see this site name in each new search tab you open in your browser, this means that aartemis.com is a browser hijacker, a program which nests deeply in your system. In particular, it has hijacked your browser and now is set as its home page and search engine. This guide is about removal of the Artemis Portal Site from your computer.

Aartemis Portal Site
Aartemis Portal Site – aartemis.com

Aartemis Portal Site is the successor of a V9 Portal (v9.com). The developers of these two portals are the same people. The purpose of this so-called “portal” is not to help computer users to search for the necessary information but rather to use their PCs as a platform for earning money. Funds are earned by these adware developers by displaying paid ads or sponsored links at the home page of your hijacked browser, or together with the search results which got redirected through aartemis.com. There are various companies who pay Aartemis.com portal to display these ads that market their products or services. But in this case users of the attacked computers don’t get any single benefit because of this junk program which managed to penetrate into their PCs.

Aartemis.com is a browser hijacker which can attack computer as a consequence of user installing some free application which was downloaded online from various free software download resources. This free utility was bundled with a lot of absolutely useless additional tools, such as adware, fake system optimizers, driver update managers, browser hijackers, add-ons, extensions and other extras. Aartemis Portal Site is one of such totally useless extras, which is considered by many security blogs as a potentially unwanted program (a.k.a. PUP).

So, considering the information contained in the previous paragraph, you must always be careful when installing other free utilities that you download online from free resources. Please carefully read the setup instructions of such applications carefully, making sure you don’t actually install any other unwanted stuff, like this aartemis.com browser hijacker. This is how you will be able to avoid such unwanted surprises and installations into your system.

If you have a look at the home page of your browser which now is set to start with aartemis.com you will discover a lot of icons there, such as Facebook, Twitter, Stumbleupon, etc. Some might think that this is a useful portal, but this is just the outward and truly deceitful feeling. Because of this portal presence on your computer the browser now functions very slow. This is a problem, by the way, for all browsers, but primarily it occurs with Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Other browsers aren’t an exception, of course.

As a consequence of aartemis.com portal site presence on your PC you will encounter this domain name in each new search tab of your browser whenever you open it to look for something. Plus, the search queries you might indicate in the search field will all be redirected through the same domain name – aartemis.com. In order to fix this issue and reset your browser to its default parameters – please carefully follow the instructions set forth below for resetting all your browsers automatically with the help of Plumbytes Anti-Malware.

Automatic instructions to get rid of Aartemis Portal Site and reset your browser settings:

  • Through your browser download Plumbytes Anti-Malware via https://www.system-tips.net/download.php or directly via the link below.
  • Scan your computer and remove all detected adware files and registry entries.
  • In Plumbytes Anti-Malware click “Tools” tab and select “Reset browser settings”:

    Reset browser settings

  • Give your permission to reset your browser settings by clicking “Yes“:
  • Confirmation to reset browser settings

  • You will receive the confirmation windows about browser settings reset successfully. When you reset your browsers through restarting them you will see that browser hijacker has been successfully removed.

Example of fixing search engine redirection in this similar YouTube video:

5 Replies to “Remove Aartemis Portal Site – aartemis.com”

  1. Seemed to reset the browsers. Will see if I continue to get the Ask – search engine and Massive numbers of pop ups or if they are GONE! Thank you, S

  2. This didn’t work, scanned and supposedly restored my browsers but the homepage and popups are still appearing, even though i manually reseted my browsers.

  3. Who is the developer of this website? and what type of companies pay to have their products advertised via this infection?

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