From: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
To: Luther Thompson <lutheroto@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: I think I got a PewDiePie virus
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 17:59:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3d1ef6533991d6ef4c4b69aabf32d508@lepiller.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190207112545.1e328ac7@gmail.com>
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.
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2019-02-07 16:25 I think I got a PewDiePie virus Luther Thompson
2019-02-07 16:59 ` Julien Lepiller [this message]
2019-02-07 17:15 ` Luther Thompson
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