My fellow penguins,
I have been pwned. What started off as weeks of smiling everytime I heard a 7-10s soundbyte of Karma Factory’s “Where Is My Mind” has now devolved into hearing dashes and dots (Morse Code) and my all-time favorite, a South Park S13: Dead Celebrities soundbyte of Ike’s Dad saying, “Ike, we are sick of you talking about ghosts!”
It’s getting old now.
I feel like these sounds should be grepable in some log somewhere, but I’m a neophyte to this. I’ve done a clean (secure wipe >> reinstall) already, the sounds returned not even a day later.
Distro is Debian Bookworm. So how do I find these soundbytes? And how do I overcome this persistence? UFW is blocking inbound connection attempts everyday, but the attacker already established a foothold.
Thank you in advance. LOLseas
Update: post-reinstallation and monitoring incoming connections, I’m happy to say the sounds have not returned. This has given me the motivation to install a Netgate 1100 with pfSense ahead of the PC. Thank you all!
I mean, that’s what that guy who had the issue back then also thought. IIRC he had morse code and whispering at random times.
Maybe just quickly check what Steam’s audio player has listed as soundtracks, just to rule it out (assuming you haven’t found the cause yet).