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Offline The Night

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I have a piece of black duct tape over my webcam because I'm not retarded, but your software ran a scan and said "Hello! Someone could be watching! I'm like no, I have a big piece of duct tape over my webcam because I'm only semi-retarded, but then you try and extort money out of me over it.

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Re: You said someone could be watching me on my webcam but that's not true
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2021, 03:55:42 PM »
I have a piece of black duct tape over my webcam because I'm not retarded, but your software ran a scan and said "Hello! Someone could be watching! I'm like no, I have a big piece of duct tape over my webcam because I'm only semi-retarded, but then you try and extort money out of me over it.
Well, I doubt that any software product could detect your (smart!) "hardware" solution. ;)
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Re: You said someone could be watching me on my webcam but that's not true
« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2021, 05:55:57 PM »
I have a piece of black duct tape over my webcam because I'm not retarded, but your software ran a scan and said "Hello! Someone could be watching! I'm like no, I have a big piece of duct tape over my webcam because I'm only semi-retarded, but then you try and extort money out of me over it.

I have a postit Arrow over mine, that however doesn't stop then trying and allied to trying to use your web cam they would probably try to access the microphone.

However, I don't find either to be a concern. 
Why else would we bother to have an antivirus installed but to prevent malware getting on to our systems :)
After all isn't it meant to prevent external malware getting on to our systems.
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