Opera connecting to webcam
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mksmall1998 last edited by
Starting this morning, Zemana is popping up a warning box that Opera is wanting to connect to my webcam. This is the first time this has happened. When I click Block, Opera closes.
Can this action be triggered by an email?
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joshl last edited by
Post your specs:
- Opera version,
- OS exactly,
- status of your antimalware protection,
- plug-ins installed (apart from checking
opera://pluginsyou might consider looking into the list of running processes in your Task Manager).
What other browsers do you have installed?
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mksmall1998 last edited by
Thanks for the reply
Opera Version: 25.0.1614.7
Win 7 SP1 Ver 6.1.7601
Plugins
Adobe Flash Player Version: 15.0.0.215
Chrome PDF Viewer
QuickTime Player Version: 7.7.3 (1680.64)
Adobe Reader Version: 11.0.9.29 Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape 11.0.9
Java (2) Version: 10.71.2.14
Google Update Version: 1.3.25.11
Windows Live
Photo Gallery Version: 14.0.8081.0709
iTunes Application Detector Version: 1.0.1.1
Silverlight Version: 5.1.30514.0In Task Manager, there are 9 different processes of opera.exe *32 running
Malware protection is Zemana, Malwarebytes, MS Security essentials, Private Firewall
Others Browers installed: Chrome, IE 11
The trigger happens when checking email on my ISP website which they use Yahoo mail. I have tried this in Chrome with no warning.
I don't use the webcam
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joshl last edited by
Asecurity? :lol:
Well, he says
Malware protection is Zemana, Malwarebytes, MS Security essentials, Private Firewall
so either it's a whole lot of different defenders - or if some are similar, then a potential trouble can arise...:sherlock:
In any case, I pointed that out to remind the guys that the prompt comes from another application than Opera (and that he says Opera closes, so...).
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mksmall1998 last edited by
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Websites can ask to access your webcam (and microphone), but Opera should then ask you ... there's a setting under Settings > Websites related to this - check that. Also see what websites are open.
The setting is: Do not allow sites to access my camera and microphone.
This may be connected to the last update to Opera. I did not have my email up tonight and still got the popup from Zemana. So it's not tied just to email.
As I stated before, Opera will close if I click to block the request, but I've discovered if I create a rule to always block the action, then Opera will not open at all.
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