Good morning,

 I received a warning yesterday afternoon from the UT IT section saying they detected a virus on my laptop. I was suspicious and I looked for it with McAfee Stinger (heuristic setting on very high).

 It found and deleted the Artemis!1329FCC23CE9 trojan from the gretl updater.exe file.

 Here is the link to that tool: http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=stinger.

 I don't know what damage it causes but I thought you would want to know. Also, if you have a patch or work around, we would be interested to know more about that.

We use gretl for our Advanced Empirical Methods course in program evaluation.

Best regards,

Mark

Mark R. Cheadle

E-Mail: UTCheadle@hot.rr.com or mcheadle@mail.utexas.edu

Master of Public Affairs Candidate (2010)
LBJ School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin