Should I block it?
No, this file is 100% safe to run.
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Import table
advapi32.dll
RegQueryValueExW, RegOpenKeyExW
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)
| Version: | 11.1.3.8 |
| MD5: | baf535f843a3e790e04a7613811b55bc |
| SHA1: | 4d96bc82c3a447d7d374af3492f9a034f8394313 |
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”
Details
| File name: | iTunesHelper.exe |
| Publisher: | Apple Inc. |
| Product name: | iTunes |
| Description: | iTunesHelper |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\itunes\ituneshelper.exe |
| File version: | 11.1.3.8 |
| Size: | 148.82 KB (152,392 bytes) |
| Build date: | 11/2/2013 2:56 PM |
| 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
Programs
The following programs will install this file
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 ...
“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.”
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 or platforms.
“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 turn on QuickTime Pro functions. QuickTime Player 7 will be installed in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder.”
“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. Perform custom benchmarks and measure the frame rate between any two points. Save the statistics out to disk and use them for your own reviews and applications. Have you ever wanted to record video while playing your favourite game? Come join...”
LogMeIn remote access products use a proprietary remote desktop protocol that is transmitted via SSL. An SSL certificate is created for each remote desktop and is used to cryptographically secure communications between the remote desktop and the accessing computer. Users access remote desktops using either the LogMeIn Ignition stand-alone application or a web portal. The web portal requires either an ActiveX plugin for Internet Explorer...
Rhapsody is an online music store subscription service. The Rhapsody Music Software, which is free from Rhapsody, helps organize music collections, and synchronize them in MP3 portable media players (PMP) with the Rhapsody subscription service. It thus competes with Apple Inc.'s iTunes software.
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Trimble Navigation Limited |
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“Redecorate your living room. Invent a new piece of furniture. Model your city for Google Earth. There's no limit to what you can create with SketchUp. We believe powerful software can also be a pleasure to use – the secret is intuitive tools that work the way you think they should. Apparently, millions of people agree. You can build models from scratch, or you can download what you need. People all over the world share what they've made...”
WinRAR is a file archiver and data compression utility that supports RAR, and ZIP and can unpack ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, EXE and 7z compressed archives. Version 5 uses the RAR5 archive format that cannot be managed by old versions of WinRAR. This format features a maximum 1GB dictionary (only in 64bit version), better multicore support, it removes multimedia, text and itanium binaries special compression algorithms.
Behaviors
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 64326
[UDP] listens on port 55186
[UDP] listens on port 65206
[UDP] listens on port 57700
[UDP] listens on port 63825
[UDP] listens on port 61191
[UDP] listens on port 59218
[UDP] listens on port 60077
[UDP] listens on port 63938
[UDP] listens on port 56097
[UDP] listens on port 55339
[UDP] listens on port 49954
[UDP] listens on port 63287
[UDP] listens on port 59043
[UDP] listens on port 60483
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00063448% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00037796% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00025652% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 84,673 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 684,026/sec | |
| Context switches: | 2/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 3.84 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 13.44 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 5.44 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 3.84 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 117.64 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 122.94 MB | |
| Working set: | 6.62 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 14.49 MB | |
| Page faults: | 2,092,991/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 42 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 1.08 KB/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 2/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 11 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 2/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 9 | |
| Handles: | 261 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 9 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 10 | |
| GUI USER count: | 9 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 10 | |
Process properties
Threads
Averages
| iTunesHelper.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00767312% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00652226% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00115086% | |
| CPU cycles: | 190,832/sec | |
| Memory: | 156 KB | |
| wow64.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00019598% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00015678% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00003920% | |
| CPU cycles: | 16,386/sec | |
| Context switches: | 1/sec | |
| Memory: | 252 KB | |
| ituneshelper.dll (iTunes by Apple) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00007518% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00006578% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000940% | |
| CPU cycles: | 6,839/sec | |
| Memory: | 160 KB | |
| itunesmobiledevice.dll (iTunesMobileDevice by Apple) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00001880% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00001880% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| CPU cycles: | 302/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.61 MB | |
Common loaded modules
These are modules that are typiclaly loaded within the context of this process.
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
44.50% |
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| Windows 8.1 |
15.50% |
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| Windows 7 Ultimate |
13.50% |
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| Windows 8.1 Pro |
5.50% |
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| Windows 8 |
5.50% |
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| Microsoft Windows XP |
4.00% |
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| Windows 7 Professional |
3.50% |
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| Windows 8 Single Language |
2.00% |
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| Windows Vista Home Premium |
2.00% |
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| Windows 8.1 Single Language |
1.50% |
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| Windows Seven Black Edition |
1.00% |
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| Windows 8.1 N |
0.50% |
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| Windows 8 Enterprise |
0.50% |
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| Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center |
0.50% |
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Distribution by country
United States installs about 51.50% of iTunes.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Hewlett-Packard |
20.95% |
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| Toshiba |
18.97% |
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| Dell |
17.39% |
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| ASUS |
11.86% |
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| Acer |
9.09% |
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| Lenovo |
8.70% |
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| Sony |
3.95% |
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| GIGABYTE |
1.98% |
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| Samsung |
1.58% |
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| Compaq |
1.58% |
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| NEC |
1.58% |
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| Sahara |
0.79% |
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| Alienware |
0.79% |
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| American Megatrends |
0.79% |
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