iTunesHelper.dll
iTunes by Apple Inc. (Signed)
Warning 4 antivirus scanners has detected malware in various versions of iTunesHelper.dll.
Overview
There are 60 versions of ituneshelper.dll in the wild, the latest version being 11.2.2.3. The average file size is about 97.37 KB. The file is a digitally signed and issued to Apple Inc. by VeriSign. The programs iTunes, QuickTime and UltraEdit have been observed as installing specific variations of ituneshelper.dll.
What is ituneshelper.dll?
iTunesHelper DLL is part of iTunes. Apple's iTunes is a proprietary media player computer program, used for playing and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone and iPad. iTunes is an application that allows the user to purchase and manage audio and video on a personal computer, acting as a front end for Apple's QuickTime media player.
About ituneshelper.dll (from Apple Inc.)
“iTunes is a free application for your Mac or PC. It lets you organize and play digital music and video on your computer. It can automatically download new music, app, and book purchases across all y”
Details |
File name: | ituneshelper.dll |
Publisher: | Apple Inc. |
Product name: | iTunes |
Description: | iTunesHelper DLL |
Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\itunes\ituneshelper.dll |
Certificate |
Issued to: | Apple Inc. |
Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
Expiration date: | Tuesday, June 25, 2013 |
Programs installed in
(Note, the programs listed below are for all versions of iTunes.)
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Adobe Systems Incorporated |
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Adobe Acrobat is a set of application software to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF). Acrobat and Reader are widely used as a method of presenting info...
“With adsl TV , you can watch live free live TV without TV tuner , full screen or in a corner of the screen of your PC, watch web TV online , listen to live radio on the internet , freeze emissions cur...”
Amazon MP3 is an online music store owned and operated by Amazon.com. Amazon MP3's catalog is accessible from the Amazon.com web site by searching for an artist or title name. To download purchased mu...
Apple's iTunes is a proprietary media player computer program, used for playing and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone and iPad....
QuickTime is an extensible multimedia framework capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. QuickTime for Microsoft Windows has always be...
With a Windows PC, you can use Apple Software Update for Windows to keep your Apple software up-to-date via the Internet. Apple software includes Safari, iTunes for Windows, Bonjour for Windows, and Q...
Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Inc. It is based on the WebKit engine, which is a fork of KDE's KHTML engine. Safari has a number of features. Some are specific to certain operating systems...
Apple Application Support is required to run iTunes, QuickTime and other Apple installed products (do not remove this if you use any of these programs). If you remove this program you will need to rei...
“Enabling VoiceOver for iPod allows you to hear the names of songs, artists, and playlists spoken when listening to content on your iPod. If you have the Apple Earphones with Remote and Mic or the In-E...”
“iPhone Configuration Utility lets you easily create, maintain, encrypt, and install configuration profiles, track and install provisioning profiles and authorized applications, and capture device info...”
Apple's iTunes is a proprietary media player computer program, used for playing and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone and iPad....
“QuickTime Player 7 supports older media formats, such as QTVR, interactive QuickTime movies, and MIDI files on Snow Leopard and OS X Lion. It also accepts QuickTime 7 Pro registration codes, which tur...”
“Fraps is a universal Windows application that can be used with games using DirectX or OpenGL graphic technology. Show how many Frames Per Second (FPS) you are getting in a corner of your screen. Perf...”
µTorrent is a is a free, ad-supported, lighter-weight BitTorrent client designed to consume less resources then the full BitTorrent version. Some uTorrent installs include potentially unwanted applic...
“AMD Radeon™ RAMDisk is a kernel-level driver that presents a standard disk drive to the Operating System. It creates a drive letter similar to C:/drive and can be assigned a name (e.g. RAMDisk) for re...”
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. |
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“rom the ruthless artificial intelligence of the original UNREAL, the death gladiator chaos of UNREAL TOURNAMENT and beyond, the Unreal franchise is the king-of-the-hill in multiplayer carnage. Unreal ...”
Evernote is a suite of software and services designed for notetaking and archiving. A "note" can be a piece of formatted text, a full webpage or webpage excerpt, a photograph, a voice memo, or a handw...
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Flagship Industries, Inc. |
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“Ventrilo is comprised of two primary Components: The Client that every end user will need to download, and the Server. Only one person needs to host a Server that all of the other Clients will connect...”
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IDM Computer Solutions, Inc. |
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“Text editor, HEX editor, HTML editor, PHP editor. Suitable for general text editing, programmer's, web designers, binary editing, email, and all your editing needs. Key Features include: Disk based ed...”
Malware detections
Based on 40+ industry antivirus scanners, 4 of them detected the following malware.
Antivirus engine | Engine version | Detection | File version |
Antiy Labs AVL |
2.0.3.7 |
Trojan/Win32.Agent2 |
10.7.0.21 |
Antiy Labs AVL |
2.0.3.7 |
Trojan/Win32.Agent |
11.0.5.5 |
Antiy Labs AVL |
2.0.3.7 |
Trojan/Win32.Agent |
11.1.0.126 |
Antiy Labs AVL |
2.0.3.7 |
Trojan/Win32.Agent |
11.1.1.11 |
All file variations of ituneshelper.dll
Distribution by Windows OS
OS version | distribution |
Windows 7 Home Premium |
50.00% |
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Windows 7 Ultimate |
11.50% |
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Windows 8 |
7.00% |
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Microsoft Windows XP |
7.00% |
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Windows 8.1 |
6.00% |
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Windows Vista Home Premium |
5.50% |
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Windows 7 Professional |
3.75% |
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Windows 8.1 Pro |
3.00% |
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Windows 8 Pro |
1.75% |
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Windows 8 Single Language |
1.00% |
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Windows Seven Black Edition |
0.50% |
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Windows Vista Home Basic |
0.50% |
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Windows Vista Business |
0.50% |
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Windows Vista Ultimate |
0.50% |
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Windows 7 Starter |
0.50% |
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Windows 7 Home Premium N |
0.50% |
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Windows 8 Pro N |
0.50% |
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Distribution by country
United States installs about 55.53% of iTunes.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
PC Manufacturer | distribution |
Dell |
21.48% |
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Hewlett-Packard |
20.19% |
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Toshiba |
16.67% |
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Acer |
9.44% |
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ASUS |
8.15% |
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Sony |
8.15% |
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Lenovo |
6.30% |
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Intel |
2.96% |
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GIGABYTE |
1.85% |
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Samsung |
1.11% |
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American Megatrends |
1.11% |
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Alienware |
0.74% |
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Compaq |
0.74% |
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NEC |
0.74% |
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Sahara |
0.37% |
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