Comments on: Joke.Blusod

By: Kellie D

Kellie D — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:03:26 +0000

Has anyone had a computer completely fail after this virus appears? My son’s laptop apparently had the virus and he shut down the computer. Now, we cannot power it on at all. I cannot F8 into safe mode and we do not have a restore CD for this machine (Windows XP Pro). Any suggestions?

By: Allen D

Allen D — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:06:24 +0000

Malware got things up and running but I’m still starting and running slow. (5 minutes to start up)
After a while, the screen goes black and I have to restart. Any suggestions on the slowdown?

By: Brandon

Brandon — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:02:57 +0000

This makes a nice asset to go along with Symantec. This program can actually find these malicious software and quarantine them successfully, unlike Symantec. It did quarantine joke.blusod and 11 other sneaky malware on my computer!

By: kev

kev — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:53:47 +0000

Okay, I’m in a rut. A little over a week ago I got the joke blue virus and after a several runs of McAfee and Defender the external evidence of it seems to have been ripped apart and deleted. But, I still have several system problems – slow, uncertain start-up (generally 2 out of 3 times everything locks up when I get to the desktop screen), and my browsers have certainly been hijacked – or, I don’t know what’s technically happening, but my web-searches are diverted, and many pages simply don’t load. Most frustrating is that many of the pages that refuse to load are those that link to the free anti-spyware programs that folks have been recommending to remove this bugger. Eithere that, or it seems like if I do manage to download the set-up program for something like MalwareBytes, I get an error that the file is corrupted. It all just seems too fishy to me. I’m not highly tech inclined so I would appreciate any feedback as to what’s going on with my system and how I might be able to successfully defend it. thanks!

By: Al Khan

Al Khan — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:02:44 +0000

Excellent – fixed all the problems ..

By: Rick H.

Rick H. — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:09:27 +0000

Awesome! Just spent the entire day trying to use Norton 360 (what a joke). Found your responses and ran the Anti-Malware and got it cleaned up. Thanks! Will click the “Donate” button after I submit this comment!

Take Care!

By: AP

AP — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:06:39 +0000

I have discovered that I have the Joke.Blusod virus on my PC. I just downloaded the file and tried to run it and I got this error:

Run-time error ’372′;

Failed to load control ‘vbalGrid’ from vbalsgrid6.ocx. Your version ofvbalsgrid6.ocx may be outdated. Make sure you are using the version of the control that was provided with your application.

Any input given, would be greatly appreciated!

By: Mikey77

Mikey77 — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:25:47 +0000

I wonder why the security Certificate for this program cannot be verified, before you Run it?

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:13:46 +0000

Ditto…..Powerful tool to remove Trojan.Blusod and Joke.Blusod. Download, install, update, full scan, remove and reboot. Done! Very happy!

By: Pat

Pat — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:40:09 +0000

I did Sherylee’s instructions but something else has it keep coming back.