Flash player or spy ware? [Archive]

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CarolAnn

05-01-2007, 12:07 PM

I right-clicked on a funny video I was watching on my PC, and got this box:

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w246/carolwyborny/flash.jpg

ALLOW VIDEO GOOGLE.COM TO ACCESS MY CAMERA AND MICROPHONE? :o

Since we discovered that my sister had a microphone right in her monitor (that she had no idea was there!) - I wonder how many people know that this capability is part of the flash player? :P

JakeLeg

05-07-2007, 04:04 PM

i believe that is built into the Adobe (formerly Macromedia?) Flash. I'm pretty sure that it defaults to the "Deny" option. That option came out a few years ago, and i remember a big stink when it came out.

I'm not crazy about Flash running on my machine unless i allow it, so i use Firefox as a browser, and have an add-in called "Flash Block" that prevents flash items from opening/running unless i click on them to allow them to open.