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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, 2013 at 15:07
  • More information is required to help you.
    – Ramhound
    Jan 16, 2013 at 15:14
  • @Ramhound: What kind of info you need?
    – Homam
    Jan 16, 2013 at 15:25
  • 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, 2013 at 15:39
  • The camera is integrated with my laptop - HP pavilon. There is only its software from HP
    – Homam
    Jan 16, 2013 at 15:41

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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.

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