Peeping Tom Worm That Uses Webcams

Ant writes "The Register mentions a new Windows worm known as Rbot-GR that is currently circulating accross the net. It has the capability to spy on users using webcams. " I'm surprised that it took this long.

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Sub Seven...

[linuxrunner]

Sub 7 / BO and others have given the user *cough* kiddie *cough* this ablility for some time.

Sure they're not a worm, but the idea isn't new.

Funny now that I think about it, but I used to use Sub 7 on my home computer so I could access it from anywhere via an odd port and password protected. I could view my web cam, take control of my computer, ftp files upload and download to where-ever I was.

Honestly, it was an extremely useful program. And when I was done, I'd just shut down the server.

I've moved over to linux so I can ssh now, but as windows went, it was still one of the best remote programs I've ever used.