Do you use a web cam on your computer?

you have to use a spyware to avoid that kind of hackers. i dont know why hackers can do impossible.. when the time keeps run and run the technology will improve also.. maybe on the future our laptop can do holographic screen. i love that when it comes =)

Hi friend, luckily my laptop don't have the built in web cam facility as well as i don't have a web cam for my PC. Really this information is a shocking one, we must be very careful with this kind of hackers.

My Netbook has a webcam and microphone, I will also have an anti-virus that is always updated. And the webcam was never used, because it was not necessary for me. That why I am very careful while doing online in internet.

I have a web cam and I would have to say that doesn't scare me. You know why, because I don't give hackers control. If you monitor how people uses your system you wont have a problem. Firewalls and virus protectors help. On my computer now I don't even have a virus protector and I dont really think I need one because of how careful I am. I was also interested in computers in the past so I know a few things about them. I know how to create a virus and that means I also know how to avoid them. I hope you understand what I am saying. But in this world you have puerile kids who doesn't know how to use the internet safely so they get virus easily. That is why I do not lend out my laptop to anybody. If someone comes to my house and needs to use the internet. I direct them to the computer in the living room. That computer doesn't have a web cam, and it is of much less performance. If anything should happen on that computer, there aren't any important files on it. So that mean I can reformat the computer any time I feel like when necessary. I do not like to reformat computers very often though, I am afraid they will be destroyed. So the computer would have to reach a point where I consider it unusable before I consider reformatting it. I can see your concern with sharing such information though. And I really hope people take heed to it. Not everyone is meticulously observant like me. people watch out for the those weird hackers.

Thanks for sharing What you say is not possible, must be via some virus there. Well i use web cam in my desk top and lap top for chatting to my friends sice several years, nothing happen ever.

i don't use webcam on my pc, so i am free from this problem and of cours i am free from the hackers.....,LOL

This sounds a very unlikely scenario, although I cannot totally discount the possibility. I have a web cam integrated into my laptop, but I rarely use it. Furthermore, I never leave my laptop in sleep mode, it is either in use or turned off. I changed the power settings quite a while ago so that the laptop will not shut down if I close the lid, which means that I can close it to carry the laptop to another room without exiting the program. The sleep mode was negated at the same time.

I have a webcam on my laptop. But i really don't like using it for talking to people apart from work here. I Do speak if i had to do some video conferencing when i use to work, otherwise i seriously hate using web came for personal talk other than family. And they don't use web cams to talk.

Another scary story of computer virus. You know what ? I am happy to have no webcam on my notebook. There is a webcam on my tablet, but I never use it, and I don't think my face is interesting enough for a hacker to have to put a black tape on the cam.

No I don't. I don't know what I should use it for.

i agree with you as we should use such practical methods to stay protected from those hackes.