Detect the diversion of the camera software?

Hello world

I was visiting Opinion Outpost today when I got several popup messages on their system in vain trying to activate my webcam remotely.  I keep a post-it on my webcam, of course, but am worried now that this company may have installed access the camera remotely on my computer. Does anyone know what I would look for, and where, on my computer? Is there a software specially designed to search for the webcam hacks distance?

Opinion Outpost seems to be a legitimate business who works with Harris polls and Nielsen Ratings and other survey on businesses, but this attempt to access my webcam without my permission made me angry enough.

Yes, I know, I was probably a sucker to still go to their site... lesson learned!

Thanks for any help/ideas.

I guess they tried to use the Flash Player to access your camera. In my view, the default setting in system preferences-> Flash Player-> camera and microphone is to ask yourself if a site wishes to use any of these elements.

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