AVG Labels iTunes Malware

iTunes and especially Quicktime are borderline malware as it is. Its damn near impossible to remove all traces of Quicktime from a system once its been installed...I would swear they use a rootkit sometimes, although I haven't been able to prove it yet. Please tell me why the fuck do you need 5 or so processes running all the time just to put songs on an ipod? Its a fucking MP3 player for god sakes. It is sad when the third parties make better software for it than the manufacturer does, in many cases that software is freeware too.

Things may have changed since the last time I used the software, but just like with Symantec and Sony, I've been burned too many times.
 
I went from AVG to Avast! and will be switching to MS Essentials in about a week.

But on a side note, AVG is the only one detecting iTunes as malware, WTF?
 
Quicktime, Apple Software Update and iTunes.

These are the programs I uninstalled and the computer run much better and faster.
 
curtcheese64 said:
Expand on this. I want to use Avira but that popup is a deal breaker.
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It depends on what version of windows are you using.

basically you need to keep avnotify from running.

on Windows 7 just right click avnotify.exe and select properties
on the security tab select system and click edit then check deny read&execute and apply.
 
Vermillion said:
If you don't like Bing that's fine but you're whole rant was nothing but personal preference about what it looks like.

I could give a shit what a search engine looks like as long as it finds what I want. I don't see any speed difference in the web pages or their searching. However, under Bing I'll get what I want immediately instead of scrolling down 5 links or better to find it.
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Its not a rant, its a rating, I'm very specific about its crappy search and result layout and bloated size. Forgive me for being used to loging into a clean white page with a Google logo and not wanting to go back to 1996 for Excite.com.

example please for your "5 links or better" with google vs. bing.

Their home page is about a quarter of a MB big.

If you've got an issue with that- it's time to come out of the dial up age.

After that, I just see a bunch of nit-picking from someone that's gotten entirely too used to Google.
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I go to Google onto my laptop and cell phones for searches, that size matters to me, I load it very often. My critique of Bing is after having used both. I do not understand why anyone would go from a clean interface to that of Bing, as a serious judgment of the persons ability to weigh pros and cons. I only see where Bing lacks, as a rational judgment. Frankly, all my test searches for both come back almost the same for both Bing and Google, including the + and - inclusive and exclusionary advanced searches. So it seems to really boil down to an interface choice and/or provider bias. If I find some way, one day, that Bing is actually superior, I'll use it. But for now, I'm choosing the cleaner and more utilitarian interface of the two. Does bringing Bing up really leave you with the feeling of "now I finally can get Work done." ? Not me. Does it feel as bloated, gimmicky and as pretensions as an iPhone? Quite possibly.
 
Stoly said:
It depends on what version of windows are you using.

basically you need to keep avnotify from running.

on Windows 7 just right click avnotify.exe and select properties
on the security tab select system and click edit then check deny read&execute and apply.
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Wrong. You only want to deny execute (in the advanced properties). Do not deny read or anything else or you will have problems updating.
 
YMMV

I can't stand Anti-vir. I have installed on my work pc so I can get daily updates I put on a BartPE disk for my virus scans. It is constantly finding false positives and I have a huge exception list just so it can finish it's daily scan.

I have avg free on all my home pc's and never have had a single issue. It even stopped the one infection I almost had from a bad site with a firefox exploit (Tip of the day: keep your software updated).
 
Well this update hosed my itunes install, I had to remove AVG and reinstall Itunes. I went back with Avast, let me ask what other service lets you legally download music as easy as itunes? tell me and I will switch today! :cool:
 
SorienOR said:
YMMV

I can't stand Anti-vir. I have installed on my work pc so I can get daily updates I put on a BartPE disk for my virus scans. It is constantly finding false positives and I have a huge exception list just so it can finish it's daily scan.

I have avg free on all my home pc's and never have had a single issue. It even stopped the one infection I almost had from a bad site with a firefox exploit (Tip of the day: keep your software updated).
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I don't know what you have on your PC but Avira (before I switched the even better MSE) did a full scan of my entire machine every day at 4AM and never found a thing.
 
Unit44 said:
Thanks, but does it have a media library to dload songs from? and how much a song. That's really what I'm looking for,
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That's what Amazon MP3 is for... 1 click download is pretty easy.
Plus it's 256kbps... Not the best but alot better than the 128 crap you can find elsewhere.
 
Ha ha, awesome. iTunes feels like malware to me when I'm working on computers that have it installed.

No Apple software on my PC, ever.
 
criccio said:
I don't know what you have on your PC but Avira (before I switched the even better MSE) did a full scan of my entire machine every day at 4AM and never found a thing.
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Which is why I say YMMV ;) examples of programs it finds as false positives are keyfinder and RegeditPE (registry editor that runs from BartPE).
 
AVG's free antivirus product temporarily blocked users from getting to iTunes late last week, detecting it as a Trojan, the company said on Monday.
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I fail to see the problem here.
 
dandragonrage said:
Wrong. You only want to deny execute (in the advanced properties). Do not deny read or anything else or you will have problems updating.
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I've done it in dozens of pc's and I have yet to have a problem, but I'll try your way just in case.
 
+1 Amazon mp3. Amazon is a much better company to support and the mp3's are free of DRMaids.
 
I've been using Avira, but I recently put it on my laptop and my daily scan is either taking ~8 hours to complete or is getting completely stuck and not finishing at all. It works good on the other 3 computer I have it installed on though. This is a fresh install of Vista too. Thinking about trying out MSE.
 
At least AVG got it right labeling it malware!
But seriously I think AVG has decreased in quality, it was certainly better in the past. Or maybe there are just better alternatives nowadays.
 
i really dont understand all this itunes bashing. ive used it since 2005, because i couldnt find anything else that was simpler and no stupid headaches to use. I didnt even have an ipod until 2007, just about the same time i started buying music. the interface is clean, and it just works. other than the ipod, i dont buy apple products, so im no fanboi.
 
Smiththers2 said:
i really dont understand all this itunes bashing. ive used it since 2005, because i couldnt find anything else that was simpler and no stupid headaches to use. I didnt even have an ipod until 2007, just about the same time i started buying music. the interface is clean, and it just works. other than the ipod, i dont buy apple products, so im no fanboi.
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It's slow, ugly, unstable, bloated and installs tons of extra worthless crap.
 
Smiththers2 said:
seriously if you notice your computer going slow from itunes... it has issues.
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Typical Apple fanboy...
Funny how they say Vista uses lots of RAM (therefore that must be a bad thing) in one breath but then say if iTunes slows your computer down, it's not the software's fault :rolleyes:
 
Well itunes on my friends computer uses almost 4x the RAM as my foobar2k installation uses and it installs something like 4-5 processes as well plus apples updater.
 
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