I think I got a PewDiePie virus

I think I got a PewDiePie virus

[Luther Thompson]

While doing a `guix pull` on the GNOME terminal, I noticed this:

...
building /gnu/store/4l1f4m8d070mk6w30ky45w13k3ch8dv6-guix-system.drv...
 12%
[########################                                                      ]
PewDiePie
84,376,468 subscribers
Get me to 17 mil thank
building /gnu/store/jvli7lca37v94fg8ghfj1li311j7cbg0-guix-cli.drv...
[more `guix pull` output]
2019-02-07 Thu 10:06:56 ~$ PewDiePie
bash: PewDiePie: command not found
2019-02-07 Thu 10:06:58 ~$ 84,376,468 subscribers
bash: 84,376,468: command not found
2019-02-07 Thu 10:06:58 ~$ Get me to 17 mil thank
bash: Get: command not found
2019-02-07 Thu 10:06:58 ~$

The suspicious text did get into my bash history, so it may be
completely unrelated to `guix pull`. It's possible that they hacked my
keyboard input or the clipboard.

This appears to be the biggest security breach on a GNU system that
I've ever seen in my life. Does anyone know what's going on?

I did happen to watch a PewDiePie video [0] last night where he talks
about a virus that forces printers to print a message about him. The
above text does not appear in the printer virus's message, so it may be
unrelated. I have not rebooted since watching that video.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pRh6edafrE

Luther

Re: I think I got a PewDiePie virus

[Julien Lepiller]

Le 2019-02-07 17:25, Luther Thompson a écrit :
> While doing a `guix pull` on the GNOME terminal, I noticed this:
> 
> ...
> building /gnu/store/4l1f4m8d070mk6w30ky45w13k3ch8dv6-guix-system.drv...
>  12%
> [########################                                               
>        ]
> PewDiePie
> 84,376,468 subscribers
> Get me to 17 mil thank
> building /gnu/store/jvli7lca37v94fg8ghfj1li311j7cbg0-guix-cli.drv...
> [more `guix pull` output]
> 2019-02-07 Thu 10:06:56 ~$ PewDiePie
> bash: PewDiePie: command not found
> 2019-02-07 Thu 10:06:58 ~$ 84,376,468 subscribers
> bash: 84,376,468: command not found
> 2019-02-07 Thu 10:06:58 ~$ Get me to 17 mil thank
> bash: Get: command not found
> 2019-02-07 Thu 10:06:58 ~$
> 
> The suspicious text did get into my bash history, so it may be
> completely unrelated to `guix pull`. It's possible that they hacked my
> keyboard input or the clipboard.
> 
> This appears to be the biggest security breach on a GNU system that
> I've ever seen in my life. Does anyone know what's going on?
> 
> I did happen to watch a PewDiePie video [0] last night where he talks
> about a virus that forces printers to print a message about him. The
> above text does not appear in the printer virus's message, so it may be
> unrelated. I have not rebooted since watching that video.
> 
> [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pRh6edafrE
> 
> Luther


You probably copied the text from youtube and later pasted it in
your terminal, while guix pull was running. It looks a lot like
this: the text could easily come from youtube and it looks like
it was pasted there during the build of guix-system. I don't think
that's a virus or anything, you probably middle-clicked by
accident on your terminal.

Re: I think I got a PewDiePie virus

[Luther Thompson]

On Thu, 07 Feb 2019 17:59:06 +0100
Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> wrote:
> You probably copied the text from youtube and later pasted it in
> your terminal, while guix pull was running. It looks a lot like
> this: the text could easily come from youtube and it looks like
> it was pasted there during the build of guix-system. I don't think
> that's a virus or anything, you probably middle-clicked by
> accident on your terminal.

I see. That would be a really bizarre accident, since I don't remember
highlighting anything, but I guess there's no other explanation.

Luther