After jumping through the hoops it installed fine and appears to be clean.

The app looks very early 90s until you apply a skin to it and then it looks great.

More free skins are available if you click on that option under 'Skins'

When you click 'Upgrade and choose pro it takes you to a page with downloads of other people's picture.....I guess so you can pretend to be someone else. :-(

I don't use a webcam and I don't feel like looking for it or hooking it up to test it but I will file this under 'Things I Might Need Someday'

If you do use a webcam, make sure to have a good firewall and turn off / cover your cam when not in use because hackers often look for a web cam or mic before anything else to watch and record you. Laptop cams can be covered easily with tape and a small patch of cloth to use as a flap cover.

Damon  –  16 years ago  –  Avez-vous trouver ce commentaire utile ? oui | non (+29)

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@ #9 Sabine,


I know of hacker apps that sweep ports or whatnot and look for access to cams and video. Some video captured by this method has become viral. I am surprised you aren't aware of it......very embarrassing stuff. I have seen cam hack footage on many sites from hacked cams so don't undermine my advice.

A cam turned away when not in use or a cover put over it is NOT a bad idea. If you have a cam and an IP Address, someone can access it. Every software app you install for your cam can potentially be used against you. There are apps just for finding and capturing webcams.
Don't be lackadaisical about alternative ways to protect yourself.

Just because I don't use a webcam doesn't mean I am unaware of the different types of attacks used on them daily.

Even w/out a 'Remote Access Trojan' a person can control another webcam with hacking apps that only requires you entering an ip address. You should read up on it instead of laughing everything off.

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re: #9

Sabine, if you think your webcam is totally secure just because you haven't opened the software that came with it, you are sadly misinformed. While not a card-carrying paranoid schizophrenic, I know it is possible to remotely hack into computers and run programs in stealth mode, including webcams, with their LEDs disabled. The advice in #2 for covering the webcam is actually a good idea, although there are other, even more insidious things hackers can do, such as planting key loggers and dialer apps that phone home to foreign phone numbers at $100/minute using your good old FAX modem.

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I suppose this could be a fun program, but it seems a bit unpolished and do I really want to download 13-15MB of data for each character?

A couple of things that need to be fixed:

1. The images in the help file appear to be from an earlier version of the program. They don't match the interface of the current version and this makes using the help file a little confusing.

2. Why do the Nickvoices for Male Input Voices only point to female character voices (and vice-versa)? This looks like a mistake. Unless the authors think that users of this program only want to mimic the opposite sex.

klever  –  16 years ago  –  Avez-vous trouver ce commentaire utile ? oui | non (+7)

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# 15 Damon,

Then I was a bit too fast and so, sorry for my laughing. It just seemed a bit far fetched to me how that could be possible with the cam turned off. I still can't imagine how that should be technically possible. I understand that a cam could be remote controlled if an app for that is installed on the PC for that. Like Prey is working for example. But well, I have never had anything to do with hacker apps. So, no, I wasn't aware of that and admit, that I have learned something new - thanks for that.

Sabine  –  16 years ago  –  Avez-vous trouver ce commentaire utile ? oui | non (+6)

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