iTunes latest upgrade

Careful with the latest upgrade.

I have 3 confirmed cases of this upgrade downloading as well 170+ Trojan viruses.

My laptop is suffering due to my obsession with the latest update in everything, and 2 friends of mine had the same problem.

I use AVG 8.5 Free Edition, and it detected, when I launched my iTunes, 175 Trojan viruses. Be careful with this.

 

Where did you download the update? Not from Apple?

 

You need to read this release about the false hits by AVG:

http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/07/26/avg-update-breaks-itunes

There is nothing wrong with the latest iTunes update.

 

first: it updates itself. there should be no viruses, when it gets its own update from apple?

second: AVG can report false positives. i prefer avast, or no antivirus at all I've seen AVG going havok quite some times.

 

See my above post. Looks like the people at AVG dropped the ball big time, and owe a lot of people apologies! One Google search and 10 seconds later and the truth is revealed.

 

hehe, right. but there's no need to use google to know how bad it is

espencially after uninstalling AVG from some pc's that felt like they had a virus, but "didn't". then, installing avast on it, and doing a full scan, revealed up to 7 different infections per machine.

so false positives, and false negatives. espencially the false negatives where, what drove me away from that software.

 

Upgrade: Itunes recommend it, so I trusted my itunes and did the download.
Next time I tried to run my itunes:
1) Did not work at all
2) AVG reports 175 viruses
3) "System might become unstable" Notification
4) Itunes complete crash, "missing files", "error loading", "corrupted files" all notification coming from the OS as it couldnt perform the request
5) Full removal of itunes, using REVO Uninstaller, clear all the cache, registry, everything, basically itunes left no trail in my PC
6) Re-download of itunes via www.apple.com
7) Error again, "missing files" ad "corrupted files" notifications
8) Itunes not installed
9) Step 3 again
10) I give up

I performed a full scan with AVG 8.5 (which is rated here as 3rd best free AV available). Reported 175 viruses via AVG, all of which are itunes related (itunes helper, itunes mini mask, etc) and the regular cookies that I erase all the time.

So, is AVG not a good AV? Is the latest update bad? I repeat, it happened to me and 2 more friends the same thing (177 and 175 viruses to them)...

Is this an AVG error, classifying itunes software as Trojans?

 

...considering what a piece of crap Windows iTunes is...

 

considering what a piece of crap AVG is.

itunes is a piece of crap in certain things, but definitely not that.

 

AVG is crap then? What free AV is it worth it?

 

I used avast antivirus. but since a while, i don't use any antivir anymore.

most todays security stuff is about paranoya. UAC is great, the default firewall works great. any "spyware and malware etc scanners" are useless hypers and paranoya feeders.

if you don't do illegal stuff, and buy your software from reliable sources (means always the place the vendor itself wants it. for firefox, thats mozilla.org, for itunes, thats apple.com, ccleaner f.e. is on hippodownloads or how that's called).

if you follow that route, chances for virii are very slim today (on vista, win7, that is).

still, it's good to have an antivirus, so i suggest avast.

but i've read some articles explaining, today, one would not need to have a realtime scanner active anymore. only enable realtime on youruser\downloads and youruser\documents\my recieved files (from messenger) and similar should be enough.

depends on how you behave in the web, though

 

Did you bother to visit the link I provided?

 

ok, now a just read it...

so, i got a question, is avast better? where do i download it?

 

There's a whole board about anti-virus applications. Look there.

 

thanks a lot for your help! problem being solved now!

 

The latest iTunes is working fine here. I have Norton Internet Security 2009 installed.

No flags here.