Hi everybody

When installing, McAfee quarantines factorio.exe as being a trojan called Artemis. Anybody else had this issue?

Malwarebytes threw up warnings and blocked "Launch Factorio.exe" for both the current installer version 2.0.0.3 and the previous version 2.0.0.2.

It's likely a false positive. Here's hoping anyway. From what little I was able to work out, either Factorio uses extensions that are unfamiliar to Malwarebytes, et. al. or the way Factorio restarts itself can trigger some antivirus applications to generate alerts. Don't know which is the case. There are almost no hits when searching for info about it currently.

Yeah I believe it is a false positive. Artemis is the label Mcafee gives to anything unknown. I posted on their forum and sent the file to their labs. Doesn't seem to have made any difference so far. I can run the game by restoring the file and turning off real time scanning for a minute, which is a pain but not the end of the world