How To Remove Frost Clipper Trojan

Frost Clipper: Complete Uninstall Guide

Frost Clipper is a precarious computer infection that falls under trojan category. This malicious piece of software tends to replace cryptocurrency wallet addresses in the clipboard with the cyber criminals’ ones. This means that this precarious malware is employed by attackers to steal cryptocurrency. It has been found that this application is available to be purchased on hacker forums for 500 rubles. Due to this threat, victims may have to deal with several hazardous issues e.g., hard drive crash, software failure, data loss, application malfunctioning, boot errors, and so on.

Frost Clipper: Depth View

In general, Frost Clipper targets crypto currency wallet addresses since they are case-sensitive and very difficult to be read and compared. Hence, most users copy and paste them. Copying and pasting of addresses is not a wrong thing. However, if you don’t check the pasted addresses while transferring cryptocurrencies, it may be redirected to criminals’ addresses. This perilous trojan hijacks cryptocurrency transactions by replacing their wallets’ addresses with the ones that belong to threat actors. During the transactions of cryptocurrency account, victims end up transferring digital money to the crooks instead of the intended receivers.

Frost Clipper perceives when the Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V key combinations are utilized by users to copy and paste digital currency wallet addresses. When an address is copied, the virus replaces it with an address of hackers in the clipboard. This type of infection functions when victims don’t double-check the pasted URLs. Besides, it is also capable of disabling running security measures and opening backdoors for more hazardous parasites. This nasty trojan may easily bring other online threats like adware, ransomware, RATs, spyware etc. into the infected PCs and turn the device into a malware-hub.

Frost Clipper may insert tracking cookies on web browsers and constantly monitor users’ activities whatever they do online. It can collect browsing-related information such as entered search queries, pages visited, links clicked on, IP addresses, geolocation and can also gather personal data like credit card and banking details. Later on, it shares or sells the collected data with/to third-parties for generating personalized advertisements, making fraudulent transactions etc. And therefore, presence of this notorious trojan in your computer may lead to severe privacy issues, identity theft and huge financial loss. So, an instant Frost Clipper removal is strongly required.

How Does The Threat Enter Your System?

Software cracking tools, trojans, emails, fake software updaters, or questionable sources for downloading files and program are mainly utilized for the distribution of such pernicious infections. Among them, the malspam campaign is mostly used method during which, thousands of phishing emails are sent by offenders that are disguised as important letters from some well-known companies or organizations. However, these mails usually contain malicious attachments that could be in several formats executable files like EXE, Microsoft Office, PDF documents, ZIP, RAR, or other archive files, JavaScript files. Once the vicious file is executed, it triggers the installation of malware.

So, to prevent these situations, it is important to be very careful while surfing the internet. Ignore suspicious mails that are coming from unknown addresses as you never know what they contain. Moreover, choose only reliable sources for downloading software and avoid using the unofficial sites, peer-to-peer sharing networks, and other third-party downloaders. Also, keep an anti-malware tool and scan the entire system through it to find and remove trojan if there is any. But at the moment, you must remove Frost Clipper from the machine as early as possible.

Antimalware Details And User Guide

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Important Note: This malware asks you to enable the web browser notifications. So, before you go the manual removal process, execute these steps.

Google Chrome (PC)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the Menu button
• Select “Settings”. Scroll the mouse downward to choose “Advanced” option
• Go to “Privacy and Security” section by scrolling downward and then select “Content settings” and then “Notification” option
• Find each suspicious URLs and click on three dots on the right side and choose “Block” or “Remove” option

Google Chrome (Android)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the menu button and then click on “Settings”
• Scroll down further to click on “site settings” and then press on “notifications” option
• In the newly opened window, choose each suspicious URLs one by one
• In the permission section, select “notification” and “Off” the toggle button

Mozilla Firefox

• On the right corner of the screen, you will notice three dots which is the “Menu” button
• Select “Options” and choose “Privacy and Security” in the toolbar present in the left side of the screen
• Slowly scroll down and go to “Permission” section then choose “Settings” option next to “Notifications”
• In the newly opened window, select all the suspicious URLs. Click on the drop-down menu and select “Block”

Internet Explorer

• In the Internet Explorer window, select the Gear button present on the right corner
• Choose “Internet Options”
• Select “Privacy” tab and then “Settings” under the “Pop-up Blocker” section
• Select all the suspicious URLs one by one and click on the “Remove” option

Microsoft Edge

• Open the Microsoft Edge and click on the three dots on the right corner of the screen to open the menu
• Scroll down and select “Settings”
• Scroll down further to choose “view advanced settings”
• In the “Website Permission” option, click on “Manage” option
• Click on switch under every suspicious URL

Safari (Mac):

• On the upper right side corner, click on “Safari” and then select “Preferences”
• Go to “website” tab and then choose “Notification” section on the left pane
• Search for the suspicious URLs and choose “Deny” option for each one of them

Manual Steps to Remove Frost Clipper:

Remove the related items of Frost Clipper using Control-Panel

Windows 7 Users

Click “Start” (the windows logo at the bottom left corner of the desktop screen), select “Control Panel”. Locate the “Programs” and then followed by clicking on “Uninstall Program”

Windows XP Users

Click “Start” and then choose “Settings” and then click “Control Panel”. Search and click on “Add or Remove Program’ option

Windows 10 and 8 Users:

Go to the lower left corner of the screen and right-click. In the “Quick Access” menu, choose “Control Panel”. In the newly opened window, choose “Program and Features”

Mac OSX Users

Click on “Finder” option. Choose “Application” in the newly opened screen. In the “Application” folder, drag the app to “Trash”. Right click on the Trash icon and then click on “Empty Trash”.

In the uninstall programs window, search for the PUAs. Choose all the unwanted and suspicious entries and click on “Uninstall” or “Remove”.

After you uninstall all the potentially unwanted program causing Frost Clipper issues, scan your computer with an anti-malware tool for any remaining PUPs and PUAs or possible malware infection. To scan the PC, use the recommended the anti-malware tool.

How to Remove Adware (Frost Clipper) from Internet Browsers

Delete malicious add-ons and extensions from IE

Click on the gear icon at the top right corner of Internet Explorer. Select “Manage Add-ons”. Search for any recently installed plug-ins or add-ons and click on “Remove”.

Additional Option

If you still face issues related to Frost Clipper removal, you can reset the Internet Explorer to its default setting.

Windows XP users: Press on “Start” and click “Run”. In the newly opened window, type “inetcpl.cpl” and click on the “Advanced” tab and then press on “Reset”.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 Users: Press the Windows logo, type inetcpl.cpl in the start search box and press enter. In the newly opened window, click on the “Advanced Tab” followed by “Reset” button.

For Windows 8 Users: Open IE and click on the “gear” icon. Choose “Internet Options”

Select the “Advanced” tab in the newly opened window

Press on “Reset” option

You have to press on the “Reset” button again to confirm that you really want to reset the IE

Remove Doubtful and Harmful Extension from Google Chrome

Go to menu of Google Chrome by pressing on three vertical dots and select on “More tools” and then “Extensions”. You can search for all the recently installed add-ons and remove all of them.

Optional Method

If the problems related to Frost Clipper still persists or you face any issue in removing, then it is advised that your reset the Google Chrome browse settings. Go to three dotted points at the top right corner and choose “Settings”. Scroll down bottom and click on “Advanced”.

At the bottom, notice the “Reset” option and click on it.

In the next opened window, confirm that you want to reset the Google Chrome settings by click on the “Reset” button.

Remove Frost Clipper plugins (including all other doubtful plug-ins) from Firefox Mozilla

Open the Firefox menu and select “Add-ons”. Click “Extensions”. Select all the recently installed browser plug-ins.

Optional Method

If you face problems in Frost Clipper removal then you have the option to rese the settings of Mozilla Firefox.

Open the browser (Mozilla Firefox) and click on the “menu” and then click on “Help”.

Choose “Troubleshooting Information”

In the newly opened pop-up window, click “Refresh Firefox” button

The next step is to confirm that really want to reset the Mozilla Firefox settings to its default by clicking on “Refresh Firefox” button.

Remove Malicious Extension from Safari

Open the Safari and go to its “Menu” and select “Preferences”.

Click on the “Extension” and select all the recently installed “Extensions” and then click on “Uninstall”.

Optional Method

Open the “Safari” and go menu. In the drop-down menu, choose “Clear History and Website Data”.

In the newly opened window, select “All History” and then press on “Clear History” option.

Delete Frost Clipper (malicious add-ons) from Microsoft Edge

Open Microsoft Edge and go to three horizontal dot icons at the top right corner of the browser. Select all the recently installed extensions and right click on the mouse to “uninstall”

Optional Method

Open the browser (Microsoft Edge) and select “Settings”

Next steps is to click on “Choose what to clear” button

Click on “show more” and then select everything and then press on “Clear” button.

Conclusion

In most cases, the PUPs and adware gets inside the marked PC through unsafe freeware downloads. It is advised that you should only choose developers website only while downloading any kind of free applications. Choose custom or advanced installation process so that you can trace the additional PUPs listed for installation along with the main program.