Reply To: Webcam Warning

There’s a story in today’s Daily News (Sept. 2, 2011) about a creep who set up fake songs for downloading and then was able to take over the computers of those who downloaded them.

He then was able to steal personal info, photos, and documents, as well as remotely watching people thru their webcams.

He would then contact those people and blackmail them.

The graphic details of the story are not appropriate for this site, but suffice it to say they are pretty bad and the perp is now going to prison for several years.

Please be careful which sites you go to, what you download, and it may not be a bad idea to treat your webcam as a window – leave it open when you want people to see in, and physically cover it (or unplug it, if possible) when you don’t.