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11.2.2.3 5.42%
11.2.0.115 0.50%
11.2.0.114 0.10%
11.1.5.5 2.31%
11.1.4.62 0.40%
11.1.3.8 3.51%
11.1.2.32 2.71%
11.1.2.31 0.80%
11.1.1.11 3.11%
11.1.0.126 2.91%
11.0.5.5 3.91%
11.0.4.4 9.03%
11.0.3.42 2.21%
11.0.2.26 14.24%
11.0.2.25 1.71%
11.0.1.12 20.86%
11.0.0.163 5.52%
10.7.0.21 11.03%
10.6.3.25 4.41%
10.6.1.7 1.71%
10.6.0.40 0.80%
10.5.3.3 0.30%
10.5.2.11 0.70%
10.5.1.42 0.70%
10.5.0.142 0.50%
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advapi32.dll
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kernel32.dll
GetFileAttributesExW, GetProcAddress, GetModuleHandleW, VerifyVersionInfoW, VerSetConditionMask, FreeLibrary, LoadLibraryW, GetModuleFileNameW, GetCommandLineA, GetStartupInfoA, TerminateProcess, GetCurrentProcess, UnhandledExceptionFilter, SetUnhandledExceptionFilter, IsDebuggerPresent, Sleep, ExitProcess, WriteFile, GetStdHandle, GetModuleFileNameA, FreeEnvironmentStringsA, GetEnvironmentStrings, FreeEnvironmentStringsW, WideCharToMultiByte, GetLastError, GetEnvironmentStringsW, SetHandleCount, GetFileType, DeleteCriticalSection, TlsGetValue, TlsAlloc, TlsSetValue, TlsFree, InterlockedIncrement, SetLastError, GetCurrentThreadId, InterlockedDecrement, HeapCreate, HeapFree, QueryPerformanceCounter, GetTickCount, GetCurrentProcessId, GetSystemTimeAsFileTime, LeaveCriticalSection, EnterCriticalSection, LoadLibraryA, InitializeCriticalSectionAndSpinCount, GetCPInfo, GetACP, GetOEMCP, IsValidCodePage, HeapAlloc, VirtualAlloc, HeapReAlloc, RtlUnwind, HeapSize, GetLocaleInfoA, LCMapStringA, MultiByteToWideChar, LCMapStringW, GetStringTypeA, GetStringTypeW, VirtualFree, HeapSetInformation, GetStartupInfoW, IsProcessorFeaturePresent, DecodePointer, EncodePointer
shlwapi.dll
PathAppendW, PathRemoveFileSpecW
user32.dll
wsprintfW, MessageBoxW

iTunesHelper.exe

iTunes by Apple Inc. (Signed)

Remove iTunesHelper.exe
Version:   11.1.1.11
MD5:   9f96f98409b89c5806f4380867dd48e0
SHA1:   b8bcdea73cde5bf9e953f1c41bdc6e6e49846397
SHA256:   a6a0fc6b013549bb28fd834fce6ac0db685aa5b42162f5ad090819b7d212caa6

What is iTunesHelper.exe?

Apple software includes iTunesHelper or iTunes Helper, is a program from Apple that runs in the background and monitors for the connection of any iPod or iPhone to the computer, if an iPod or iPhone is detected it will automatically launch the iTunes application. The functionality is the same on both Mac OS X and Windows PC’s.

About iTunesHelper.exe (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”

DetailsDetails

File name:iTunesHelper.exe
Publisher:Apple Inc.
Product name:iTunes
Description:iTunesHelper
Typical file path:C:\Program Files\itunes\ituneshelper.exe
File version:11.1.1.11
Size:148.82 KB (152,392 bytes)
Build date:10/1/2013 8:51 AM
Certificate
Issued to:Apple Inc.
Authority (CA):VeriSign
Expiration date:Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Digital DNA
PE subsystem:Windows GUI
File packed:No
.NET CLR:No
More details

ResourcesPrograms

The following programs will install this file
iTunes
 Apple Inc.
9% remove
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. Officially, using iTunes is required in order to manage the audio of an ...
VoiceOver Kit
 Apple Inc.
10% remove
“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-Ear Headphones with Remote and Mic, you can also use VoiceOver to navigate playlists.”
QuickTime
 Apple Inc.
6% remove
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 been downloadable as a standalone installation, as well as being bundled with Apple's iTunes. QuickTime Player is limited to only basic playback operations unless a QuickTime Pro license key is purchased.
µTorrent
 BitTorrent Inc.
8% remove
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 programs in the form of the Conduit Engine, which installs a toolbar, and makes homepage and default search engine changes to a user's web browser.
Cobian Backup 11 Gravity
 Luis Cobian
1% remove
“Cobian Backup is a multi-threaded program that can be used to schedule and backup your files and directories from their original location to other directories/drives in the same computer or other computer in your network. FTP backup is also supported in both directions (download and upload). Cobian Backup exists in two different versions: application and service. The program uses very few resources and can be running on the backgroun...”
Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit
 Microsoft Corporation
6% remove
“The Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) 5.6 helps customers understand their application compatibility situation by identifying which applications are compatible with the Windows 7® and Windows Vista® operating system and which require further testing. ACT helps customers lower their costs for application compatibility testing, prioritize their applications, and deploy Windows more quickly. ”
NaturalReaderFree
 NaturalSoft Limited
7% remove
“NaturalReader is a text-to-speech software with natural sounding voices. This easy-to-use software can read to you any text such as Microsoft Word files, webpages, PDF files, and E-mails. NaturalReader can also convert any written text into audio files such as MP3 or WAV. NaturalReader has many other functions, such as audio editor and OCR. With audio editor, you can be your own sound editor by recording, merging and editing audio files...”
Recuva
 Piriform
8% remove
Recuva is a data recovery program and is able to recover files that have been "permanently" deleted and marked by the operating system as free space. As with other file recovery programs Recuva works by looking for unreferenced data, but if the operating system has written new data over a deleted file then recovery will often not be possible.
TeamViewer 9
 TeamViewer GmbH
6% remove
“Remote control any computer or Mac over the internet within seconds or use TeamViewer for online meetings. Open multiple remote sessions in tabs, just like in your browser. For an optimal overview, you can also open all the monitors belonging to a remote computer in separate tabs. You won't miss a thing because opened tabs will always flash when new activity occurs on the remote computer, e.g. a new chat message from a customer.”
WinRAR archiver
 win.rar GmbH
12% remove
WinRAR archiver is a shareware file archiver that is able to create RAR archives natively.

BehaviorsBehaviors

Startup files (all users) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
  • 'iTunesHelper' → "C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunesHelper.exe"
Network connections
  • [UDP] listens on port 57026
  • [UDP] listens on port 51611
  • [UDP] listens on port 49960
  • [UDP] listens on port 51334
  • [UDP] listens on port 51187
  • [UDP] listens on port 62914
  • [UDP] listens on port 63334
  • [UDP] listens on port 55455
  • [UDP] listens on port 65266
  • [UDP] listens on port 1041
  • [UDP] listens on port 52225
  • [UDP] listens on port 54733
  • [UDP] listens on port 59403
  • [UDP] listens on port 62312
  • [UDP] listens on port 1046

    • ResourcesResource utilization

    (Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
    Averages
     
    CPU
    Total CPU:0.00236600%
    0.028634%
    Kernel CPU:0.00137549%
    0.013761%
    User CPU:0.00099051%
    0.014873%
    Kernel CPU time:125,331 ms/min
    100,923,805ms/min
    CPU cycles:77,578/sec
    17,470,203/sec
    Context switches:2/sec
    284/sec
    Memory
    Private memory:5.7 MB
    21.59 MB
    Private (maximum):11.28 MB
    Private (minimum):7.51 MB
    Non-paged memory:5.7 MB
    21.59 MB
    Virtual memory:108.82 MB
    140.96 MB
    Virtual memory (peak):114.07 MB
    169.69 MB
    Working set:8.13 MB
    18.61 MB
    Working set (peak):12.15 MB
    37.95 MB
    Page faults:13,158/min
    2,039/min
    I/O
    I/O read transfer:185 Bytes/sec
    1.02 MB/min
    I/O read operations:1/sec
    343/min
    I/O write transfer:2 Bytes/sec
    274.99 KB/min
    I/O write operations:1/sec
    227/min
    I/O other transfer:33 Bytes/sec
    448.09 KB/min
    I/O other operations:7/sec
    1,671/min
    Resource allocations
    Threads:10
    12
    Handles:256
    600
    GUI GDI count:10
    103
    GUI GDI peak:12
    142
    GUI USER count:10
    49
    GUI USER peak:10
    71

    BehaviorsProcess properties

    Integrety level:Medium
    Platform:64-bit
    Command line:"C:\Program Files\itunes\ituneshelper.exe"
    Owner:User
    Parent process:explorer.exe (Windows Explorer by Microsoft Corporation)

    ResourcesThreads

    Averages
     
    iTunesHelper.exe (main module)
    Total CPU:0.00324320%
    0.272967%
    Kernel CPU:0.00204153%
    0.107585%
    User CPU:0.00120167%
    0.165382%
    CPU cycles:50,492/sec
    5,741,424/sec
    Memory:156 KB
    1.16 MB
    itunesmobiledevice.dll (iTunesMobileDevice by Apple)
    Total CPU:0.00219262%
    Kernel CPU:0.00108158%
    User CPU:0.00111104%
    CPU cycles:32,164/sec
    Memory:1.61 MB
    ituneshelper.dll (iTunes by Apple)
    Total CPU:0.00195795%
    Kernel CPU:0.00150758%
    User CPU:0.00045037%
    CPU cycles:19,903/sec
    Memory:160 KB
    MSVCR80.dll
    Total CPU:0.00088431%
    Kernel CPU:0.00079632%
    User CPU:0.00008799%
    CPU cycles:470/sec
    Memory:620 KB
    wow64.dll
    Total CPU:0.00025150%
    Kernel CPU:0.00008803%
    User CPU:0.00016348%
    CPU cycles:26,318/sec
    Context switches:1/sec
    Memory:252 KB
    ntdll.dll
    Total CPU:0.00001416%
    Kernel CPU:0.00001416%
    User CPU:0.00000000%
    CPU cycles:148/sec
    Memory:1.66 MB

    Common loaded modules

    These are modules that are typiclaly loaded within the context of this process.

    Windows OS versionsDistribution by Windows OS

    OS versiondistribution
    Windows 7 Home Premium 44.50%
    Windows 8.1 15.50%
    Windows 7 Ultimate 13.50%
    Windows 8.1 Pro 5.50%
    Windows 8 5.50%
    Microsoft Windows XP 4.00%
    Windows 7 Professional 3.50%
    Windows 8 Single Language 2.00%
    Windows Vista Home Premium 2.00%
    Windows 8.1 Single Language 1.50%
    Windows Seven Black Edition 1.00%
    Windows 8.1 N 0.50%
    Windows 8 Enterprise 0.50%
    Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center 0.50%

    Distribution by countryDistribution by country

    United States installs about 51.50% of iTunes.

    OEM distributionDistribution by PC manufacturer

    PC Manufacturerdistribution
    Hewlett-Packard 20.95%
    Toshiba 18.97%
    Dell 17.39%
    ASUS 11.86%
    Acer 9.09%
    Lenovo 8.70%
    Sony 3.95%
    GIGABYTE 1.98%
    Samsung 1.58%
    Compaq 1.58%
    NEC 1.58%
    Sahara 0.79%
    Alienware 0.79%
    American Megatrends 0.79%
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