Camera light on for no reason plus Virus?

2 Questions this time. First, I've been having a lot of difficulty getting my battery to charge and stay charged. Finally I got it charging this evening, but when the computer turned on, the green camera light is also on. There are absolutely NO applications running except safari, so it's not on because of any applications using it. Does anyone know what to do about it, or if it will drain the battery?
Second, I was transferring some files onto my friend's PC from a pen drive, which we found out has the winfixer virus. I looked it up and it seems it is not a virus which affects macs, which makes sense why it never even showed up on my computer. I was wondering though how I could have possibly gotten this virus and how to get rid of it?

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Dear sir (RMS @ GNU),
my apologies. That e-mail concerned the embedding (secretly) of personal information during the make process of certain gnu software but there's a new developent and I'm extremely mad : I have been looking for ways to de-obscurify certain (gnu) Make processes. During my search I found a certain GITHUB repo that provided a way to do that. It was not "AO" but another... In reality it was a virus and/or a magic trigger that broke and destroyed All my systems in a manner of 2 hours or so.
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- the maker has found a new way (unknown to every antivirus software) to gain Admin acces to windows system via lowlevel IO and/or abused "signed drivers" - and mmaps itselfs there to propagate..
- the virus broke through running virtualbox installations (latest installation, new installations, old VDI's) and they got all destroyed, first guest and hours or days later both host and guest installations.... also new.
- the virus injects itself on every network IF / download / and propagates on installation (triggered) within the virtualbox installation. This happens on the host too, but hours later.
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To microsoft: Windows : is trojaned via virtualbox Usb I/O and/or other lowlevel I/O trickery. Obviously new methods are used, hard to reproduce and I can only mention a few details : virtualbox breakage like this is not yet mentioned anywhere and no admin priviledges are needed to reproduce. this "virus" has no signature known to clamav/kaspersky/mssc/avg/macafee. New exploits are obviously used, unknown and/or used in a similar manner. Microsoft should investigate this on their own.
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- (gnu) remake processes of kernel mods (RT/Pre-emt) -> guest additions. I could only reproduce this a few times because my host got killed.
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- techniques: callbacks via IO hooks on both HID and available network devices and injects itself via sockets (because every download was infected)
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