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Why is ‘localhost’ one of the camera options on my computer?

Tags: Malware

I’ve never seen this on my other computers and I’m scared my computer is infected and this is something someone is using to spy on me or worse.

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Normal.

In reply to Why is ‘localhost’ one of the camera options on my computer?

https://www.google.com/search?&q=localhost+one+of+the+camera+options

It’s not malware but how things work.

Are you sure?

In reply to Normal.

When choosing a webcam for me to use in an application, it’s one of the options next to the default one that comes built into my laptop. I don’t remember this ever being an option before

It’s a fairly new thing.

In reply to Are you sure?

Rather than repeat what’s out on the web, I shared a search showing more about it.

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