  We analyze the energy and zenith angle distributions of the latest 2-year
IceCube dataset of upward going atmospheric neutrinos to constrain sterile
neutrinos at the eV scale in the 3+1 scenario. We find that the parameters
favored by a combination of LSND and MiniBooNE data are excluded at more than
the 99% C.L. We explore the impact of nonstandard matter interactions on this
exclusion, and find that the exclusion holds for nonstandard interactions (NSI)
that are within the stringent model-dependent bounds set by collider and
neutrino scattering experiments. However, for large NSI parameters subject only
to model-independent bounds from neutrino oscillation experiments, the LSND and
MiniBooNE data are consistent with IceCube.
