How To Remove IceRAT Trojan from Windows

Effective Guide to Delete IceRAT from PC

IceRAT is a kind of vicious infection that is a Remote Access Trojan or backdoor. It is mainly designed to remote access your system. It was discovered and distributed by the team of cyber hacker. According to the researcher, it infected system with a stealer and cryptominer. It can steal login credential such as user names and  password from various kind of web browsers such as Amigo, chrome, Chromium, Firefox,  K-Meleon, Kometa,  Orbitum and Yandex. It may also affect the FileZilla FTP application. It can also extract information relating to the System , data extracted from applications, log-in credentials, banking details, and other sensitive information.

 It is also designed to miner-crypto currency that solves mathematical problems by using system resources. It can corrupt your System files and Windows registries as well as create duplicate file as a similar name. It has the ability to block the system security and privacy including firewall, task manager , control panel and real antivirus program. It can download or install other type of malware like as Spyware, adware, Trojan, Ransomware and other harmful threats which may cause severe damage your PC.

It often targets cryptocurrency wallets and other application or services that work in a similar manner. It can replace crypto-wallet address with owned wallet as a result diverting outgoing cryptocurrency transfers to them. It can record key strokes to gather private and sensitive information like as password, bank account details, IP address, etc and share them to third party for missuse like as identity theft, fake fraudulent, fake purchasing etc. it can connect your System with remote server to remotely access your System. It can also take huge resources of the system memory and slowdown overall performance. If your system is already infected by this nasty infection we are highly advice to remove IceRAT with automatic removal tool.

 How did IceRAT Trojan Infect your System?

IceRAT is mainly infecting your system through spam email campaigns, illegal activation tool, illegitimate updaters and untrustworthy downloader sources. Spam email is mostly used for proliferate malware infection. Cyber offender often sends thousands of spam email which contain malicious attachments and embedded links.  These emails are usually presented as urgent, Important, and sent from reputable organization. The malicious can be in various formats like as Word, documents, java scripts, archives, exe, java script and so on. When these files are executed and opened then malicious infection download and install into the target system. Updating system software from irrelevant sources, peer to peer sharing files through bad network could also bring malware.

How To protect your System from IceRAT:

It is highly recommended do not open email attachments which seems suspicious or sent from unknown sender. If you don’t know the sender name and address please verify it firstly. It is important to check the grammatical error and spelling mistakes of the email body content.  Program files should be download from legitimate, official and via direct links. Do not use third party downloaders. Always use official and trustworthy downloader site. It is important to read their terms and license agreements . it is highly recommended to check Advance or Custom setting. Updating system Software from relevant sources or direct links.  If your system is already infected, we are highly recommended to  remove IceRAT by using automatic removal tool.

 Threat summary:

Name: IceRAT

Type: Trojan,  password stealing, spyware

Descriptions: . It is mainly designed to remote access your system. It was discovered and distributed by the team of cyber hacker.

Distribution: spam email campaign,  Updating system software, Clicking on malicious ads, peer to peer sharing files.

 Damage: Stolen password and banking information, identity theft.

Removal: To eliminate this infection we are highly advice use the reputable antivirus Software.

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 IceRAT:

Remove the related items of IceRAT 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 IceRAT 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 (IceRAT) 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 IceRAT 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 IceRAT 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 IceRAT 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 IceRAT 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 IceRAT (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.