Yesterday, I found that my laptop was infected by a virus. I was a bit surprised by it, because, well, it’s my first time. I always try to keep my computer pretty clean whenever I’m using it, and I’m not sure where and how I got this virus. The virus is undetectable with AVG Free, which I have installed in my machine. This can mean 3 things: The virus is relatively new, the virus is not a BIG threat, and lastly AVG Free sucks. Anyway, the virus has the following symptoms:

• Internet explorer title bar has “[--Hacked by ROCKSTREET—] @InF” message.
• Your computer keeps on prompting you with “Drive was not found, please insert disk at location” dialog.

As you can see from the symptoms, the virus is not very threatening. The second symptom can be a bit worrying, but I’m finding that all of my drives can be found and work with no problem. Thus that dialog window is probably a bogus dialog window. After gathering some more information from the net, finally found a way to remove the virus, here is how:

• Go to “Start Menu” and then “Run”. In the dialog box type “msconfig” and click “Ok”.
• Select the “Startup” tab, and un-tick rockstreet entry. Click “Apply” –> “Ok” –> “Exit without Restart”.
• Go to “c:\windows” and the root of every drive that you have (e.g. “c:\”, “d:\”), and then delete the “rockstreet.dll.vbs” file.
• Go to the following registry key “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run”, and delete the load key.
• Go to the following registry key “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main”, and clear up the “Window Title” value key.
• Restart your machine.

Hope this helps in removing the virus if your computer is having the same problem.

RWendi