MARSHALL COUNTY,  Ky.---If a picture's worth a thousand words, what would you be willing to do to remove a picture you didn't want taken?
Scammers, claiming to be the F.B.I. are using a computer virus that activates your webcam and demands money to turn it off. A local woman wasn't sure who was watching the live video stream, but it didn't take her long to figure it out it wasn't the F.B.I.

"All I could do is put a sticker over it (her webcam) and hope no one was on the other end," Mariah Kuta said.

And even though the virus was removed from Kuta's computer, the sticker covering her camera is still there.  
Kuta fears this could happen again.
She said she was on Google when she got this message, stating she was in trouble with the F.B.I. for illegally downloading music, child porn, or malware.  But the video at the top of the page is what troubled Kuta the most.  The video was of her, live, in her pajamas.

"I could just feel my face getting hot like I was in real trouble. I kind of panicked a little when I saw myself looking back at myself I didn't really know what to do or who could be watching me," Kuta said.

Whoever it was, they wanted money sent via moneypak order, basically a prepaid credit card.

"It said for me to send them 200 dollars within the next 72 hours or else I'd be going to court, possibly jail," Kuta said.

Computer guru Willie Kerns with Smartpath Technologies said he's seen a couple of these cases and it's actually spyware on the computers. Until the spyware is removed, the camera stays on.
A friend removed the virus from Kuta's computer and even though the camera is off, the star stays.

If you get this virus and want to attempt to remove it yourself, Kerns recommends using a website like Malwarebytes.org.