The light that near the camera on my laptop is lighting although I'm not using it. Seems it's a virus or an unknown application. How can I detect the application/process that's using the camera ?
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That. Is. Creepy. – rtf Jan 16 '13 at 15:07
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More information is required to help you. – Ramhound Jan 16 '13 at 15:14
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@Ramhound: What kind of info you need? – Homam Jan 16 '13 at 15:25
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What kind of camera do you have. do you have the camera's software installed or just the drivers for it installed. – Ramhound Jan 16 '13 at 15:39
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The camera is integrated with my laptop - HP pavilon. There is only its software from HP – Homam Jan 16 '13 at 15:41
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@Homam - Is that software running when you see the light on the camera turned on. There has to be device information on the camera itself. – Ramhound Jan 16 '13 at 19:47
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@r.tanner.f That's why some people cover up their integrated webcams with tape or a post-it note when not in use. – jjlin Jan 16 '13 at 21:33
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Yeah, that does sound strange. Would it be possible to directly rename the driver for the camera, or one of it's .dll files, then if a malware program is trying to access it, your system would return an error, hopefully giving you the name of the program attempting to access or run it? – Jan 17 '13 at 02:57
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Check this http://superuser.com/questions/335116/finding-out-which-app-is-using-the-webcam/338132#338132 – Jan 17 '13 at 02:58
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I just answered in linked question ( https://superuser.com/a/612272/233899 ):
Applications using "handles" to access various interfaces provided by OS. Device handles is actually "file handles".
Process Hacker ( http://processhacker.sf.net/ ) can search handles in all processes (Ctrl+F to open "Find handles and DLL's").
My webcam device handle was
\Device\USBPDO-6
I found that after comparing all \Device* handles opened by skype.exe while my webcam is on and off.
