IconDrop Trojan

IconDrop malware description and removal detail
Categories:Trojan
Also known as:

[Other]Desktop
Visible Symptoms:
Files in system folders:
[%COMMON_DESKTOPDIRECTORY%]\Free Games.lnk
[%WINDOWS%]\icond.exe
[%COMMON_DESKTOPDIRECTORY%]\Bonus Ringtones.lnk
[%COMMON_DESKTOPDIRECTORY%]\Dating.lnk
[%COMMON_DESKTOPDIRECTORY%]\Reality Videos.lnk
[%COMMON_DESKTOPDIRECTORY%]\Free Games.lnk
[%WINDOWS%]\icond.exe
[%COMMON_DESKTOPDIRECTORY%]\Bonus Ringtones.lnk
[%COMMON_DESKTOPDIRECTORY%]\Dating.lnk
[%COMMON_DESKTOPDIRECTORY%]\Reality Videos.lnk

In order to ensure that the IconDrop is launched automatically each time the system is booted, the IconDrop adds a link to its executable file in the system registry:
HKLM\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
[%WINDOWS%]\icond.exe

Platforms / OS: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows NT, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista

Detecting IconDrop:

Files:
[%COMMON_DESKTOPDIRECTORY%]\Free Games.lnk
[%WINDOWS%]\icond.exe
[%COMMON_DESKTOPDIRECTORY%]\Bonus Ringtones.lnk
[%COMMON_DESKTOPDIRECTORY%]\Dating.lnk
[%COMMON_DESKTOPDIRECTORY%]\Reality Videos.lnk
[%COMMON_DESKTOPDIRECTORY%]\Free Games.lnk
[%WINDOWS%]\icond.exe
[%COMMON_DESKTOPDIRECTORY%]\Bonus Ringtones.lnk
[%COMMON_DESKTOPDIRECTORY%]\Dating.lnk
[%COMMON_DESKTOPDIRECTORY%]\Reality Videos.lnk

Folders:
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\Icon Drop
[%APPDATA%]\Tarma Installer

Registry Keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\tarma installer

Removing IconDrop:

An up-to-date copy of ExterminateIt should detect and prevent infection from IconDrop.

If you do not have ExterminateIt and you are worried that you may have infected computer, you could run trial version of ExterminateIt, or remove IconDrop manually.

To completely manually remove IconDrop malware from your computer, you need to delete the Windows registry keys and registry values, the files and folders associated with IconDrop.

  1. Use Task Manager to terminate the IconDrop process.
  2. Delete the original IconDrop file and folders.
  3. Delete the system registry key parameters
  4. Update your antivirus databases or buy antivirus software and perform a full scan of the computer.

We recommends that all Internet users back up any important information on their computers, enable maximum protection from network attacks and malicious code on their computers, refrain from executing suspicious programs received from untrustworthy sources.

ExterminateIt effectively and automatically removes IconDrop from you computer and is a good solution for those who are seeking easy and effective protection for their computer from Trojan Horses, Rootkits, Backdoors, spyware, botnets, keystroke loggers, dialers and other malicious software(malware).

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