Trojan.Icepol

Posted: April 5, 2013

Threat Metric

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Threat Level:	9/10
Infected PCs:	26

First Seen:	April 5, 2013
Last Seen:	November 23, 2021
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Trojan.Icepol is a family of regularly-updated Police Trojan Trojans that display general criminal alerts while also locking your desktop. These attacks, besides being a convenient excuse for the criminals behind Trojan.Icepol to demand your money, also prevent you from using your desktop – and, accordingly, making it difficult to remove Trojan.Icepol. Although the implication behind Trojan.Icepol's attack is that Trojan.Icepol will remove itself once you pay your legal fees, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers warn that Trojan.Icepol, in any of its myriad disguises, never is linked to the actual police and should never be considered anything other than malware. You're likely to need to enact extra security steps (noted in this article) to work around Trojan.Icepol, but once you've done so, deleting Trojan.Icepol with the right anti-malware program should be a painless process.

Why It's Hard to Thaw this Police Officer's Heart

The Trojan.Icepol, instead of being a single Police Trojan, actually is a group name that covers multiple PC threats from within its family. Members of the Trojan.Icepol family include variants of the Police Central ecrime Unit PCEU Ransomware, the GVU Gesellschaft zur Verfolgung Ransomware, the Politia Romana Virus and the FBI Green Dot Moneypak Virus – among other examples, with each member specializing in delivering a Police-themed pop-up that targets a specific country. Trojan.Icepol's pop-up, covering your entire monitor's real estate shamelessly, automatically accuses your PC of being used for online crimes (such as illegal downloads) without any attempt to identify perpetrators accurately.

The above details, by themselves, should be enough to confirm Trojan.Icepol as malware, but further evidence of Trojan.Icepol's nature as a Police Trojan surfaces in the monetary demands that Trojan.Icepol makes. No matter what the variant may be, Trojan.Icepol's family always demands money in exchange for unlocking your PC and allowing you to use it again. Even worse than that, SpywareRemove.com malware experts have since verified that some of Trojan.Icepol's system-locking attacks (specifically, those that prevent the usage of Windows Explorer) use basic settings changes that can't be avoided by closing Trojan.Icepol's pop-up or restarting in Safe Mode.

Cranking the Heat Up on Your PC Security Till Even Trojan.Icepol Can't Resist

Due to Trojan.Icepol's rather thorough Windows-blocking attacks, the easiest way to deal with a Trojan.Icepol infection is to launch your PC through any USB or similar peripheral device. By booting your computer from a separate OS or even a Command Prompt, you can access the anti-malware program and system recovery utilities that will allow you to delete Trojan.Icepol.

A thorough deletion of Trojan.Icepol, involving the removal of its malicious settings changes, also should allow you to use Windows normally. Besides the general anti-malware scanners that SpywareRemove.com malware researchers habitually encourage using for removing Police Trojans like Trojan.Icepol, some PC security companies also have been known to offer removal tools that are specific for Trojan.Icepol – in the event that initial anti-malware scans don't remove all of Trojan.Icepol's components.

Because Trojan.Icepol's family is updated on a very regular basis and its infection rates appear to be climbing (albeit unevenly), SpywareRemove.com malware experts also consider updating your anti-malware software regularly to be a critical step in a defense against Trojan.Icepol infections.

Trojan.Icepol

Threat Metric

Why It's Hard to Thaw this Police Officer's Heart

Cranking the Heat Up on Your PC Security Till Even Trojan.Icepol Can't Resist

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