Strange "Fly" sound -- Malware?

dala

Sweden477 Posts

July 31 2011 11:01 GMT

Occasionally, at the beginning of games after I've split the workers and start spamming, I can hear a sound clip. It begins with the buzzing sound of a flying fly, then a slap and finally a guy saying something like "got it". It's not always the whole clip is played up, but sometimes I can only hear the fly and sometimes it stops after the slap.

I'm on a mac (Macbook Pro) with the latest patch installed. But I've been hearing this for a while now.

Have anyone else noticed this? Am I infected by a malware? Neither the search tool, the Battle.net forum nor Google could help me with this.

(Help me before I go crazy for hearing voices!)

iba001

Australia156 Posts

July 31 2011 11:14 GMT

lol serious?

let me guess you play terran?

DarKcS

Australia1237 Posts

July 31 2011 11:46 GMT

Disable ambient sound in sound settings?

RaidenDude

Norway21 Posts

July 31 2011 11:47 GMT

This must be the weirdest thing i've ever heard...
I recommend you to do a scan with MalwareBytes, if the problem is malware-related.

But, seeing as the sound only plays in the start of games, i have absolutely no idea what the issue might be, it is very unlikely that it is malware.

Starp

Canada199 Posts

July 31 2011 11:50 GMT

...i'm intrigued too. There were a few times when I thought I heard sounds, voices (of people talking, etc) that doesn't seem to be part of the SC2 game. However, they were different that yours. I thought it could be malware but don't know what it is. I don't think it is the voice chat feature because I have never enabled it or used it. I was concerned too.

Could malware be spread through Bnet?

Midori8

Australia126 Posts

July 31 2011 11:52 GMT

Maybe it could be something like that bug where textures were swapped/wrong, but with sound clips?

Maybe try turn off game sound and music and see if it still does it.

dala

Sweden477 Posts

July 31 2011 11:54 GMT

On July 31 2011 20:14 iba001 wrote:
lol serious?

let me guess you play terran?

Yes, I do.

Is that sound part of the SCV sound pool? That would explain it. * embarrassed*

dala

Sweden477 Posts

July 31 2011 11:56 GMT

On July 31 2011 20:54 dala wrote:

Show nested quote +

Yes, I do.

Is that sound part of the SCV sound pool? That would explain it. * embarrassed*

Solved! No malware.

sekalf

Sweden522 Posts

July 31 2011 12:00 GMT

Awesome thread

iba001

Australia156 Posts

July 31 2011 12:06 GMT

#10

lol second that great thread

CharlieBrownsc

Canada598 Posts

July 31 2011 14:17 GMT

#11

lolololololololololololollololol

PassiveAce

United States18076 Posts

July 31 2011 14:47 GMT

#12

Glad it all worked out for you

I do stuff like this too, dont be embarrassed :p

theBOOCH

United States832 Posts

July 31 2011 15:14 GMT

#13

Lol. At least now you have piece of mind!

ZeromuS

Canada13403 Posts

July 31 2011 15:26 GMT

#14

Awesome thread glad the problem was solved at least

arthur

United Kingdom488 Posts

July 31 2011 15:48 GMT

#15

hahaha this thread needs spotlighting

i am sorry for your mistake but it cheered me up ty.

dala

Sweden477 Posts

July 31 2011 16:37 GMT

#16

Great that I could entertain some of you. I'm just happy to know what was going on.

smaugswe

Sweden121 Posts

July 31 2011 17:00 GMT

#17

The sound gets interuppted if you press something else LOL
Troll op? :D

Mtndrew

United States174 Posts

July 31 2011 17:11 GMT

#18

ROFL @ the Deliverance reference

Sandrosuperstar

Sweden525 Posts

July 31 2011 17:15 GMT

#19

i have a similar problem in bw. whenever i build my first gateway (or sometimes cybernetics) the human nuclear launch detected sound file starts to endlessly loop until i pause the game. Then it never happens again. just an anecdote

Godstorm

Romania845 Posts

July 31 2011 19:07 GMT

#20

I was going to sugest turning off all sound and seeing if it's from sc2 but then i saw the response:pure gold :D.

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