We install ITunes on a few company computers here due to needing to support iPads.
Is a system in a corporate Active Directory network? The software may have been pushed to you for some reason. And if it's a spoof, then it's one Apple needs to do something about, because it's pretty good one. I've uploaded a few screenshots ( ), maybe someone will notice something weird and be able to tell if it's a spoof.ĭoes anyone know of anyway to track how this ended up on my system? Perhaps a URL it downloaded from, or the location of the installer file? If it is legitimate then I want to know how Apple got the right to install this on my computer without my permission. Perhaps this version is old for that, but it's just something I noticed. The only thing I've noticed that seems off would be the fact that there's no "iTunes Helper.exe" in startup programs (it always bothered me, and I made a point of removing it after each update). I greped through some of the code, and I even see references to in DTD links, no typos.
The only thing that seems off is the fact that it's out of date (11.1.5.5, still with the blue icon (ah, the good old days.)), though it immediately asked to update when I first opened it. I opened the program and looked around to see if anything was off and, while I'm no security expert, if this is a spoof of iTunes, then it's the best damn spoof I've ever seen. It could be malware I suppose, but I hadn't gone to any site that could have done so (Basically just Microsoft and Google). I am trying to figure out how iTunes got on my machine (don't tell me to uninstall, that's obvious, I want to know how it got there in there in the first place). Not only that, but Visual Studio was installing at the same time, and I know that Windows doesn't allow multiple simultaneous installations! (In retrospect, it might have been updating post-installation, so that might not have counted.) I had NOT downloaded iTunes, nor any other Apple products, nor anything that might possibly be dependent on it (All that's here is Visual Studio, Google Chrome, and Office really). I don't have any music on this computer, and it was imaged to Windows 8.1 just a few hours beforehand. A moment later the user agreement came up and I saw that an iTunes icon found its way on my desktop. I only had time to see the word "iTunes" before it closed. So the other day, I was busy doing my thing, notably installing Visual Studio, when a command prompt popped up.
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