Re: iTunes: Apple's New Spyware and Adware Application?

["David Lodge" <dave () cirt net>]

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 21:24:20 -0000, Nick FitzGerald  
<nick () virus-l demon co uk> wrote:
> > cf Quicktime on Windows: you have to install iTunes
> > along with it (though you can uninstall it separately) ...
> You simply did not scroll far enough down the QuickTime page to find
> the links to the "standalone installer", which is devoid of iTunes.

Okay, I'm apathetic - next time I'll look properly...

> > ... plus it puts a task
> > in the registry to start up on reboot - *everytime you run it*. It's a
> > sodding media player WTF would I want it to consume CPU cycles
> > continuously!
> Real's media players do the same (and
> have for a long time, as do scads of other popular apps that install
> "update checkers" -- remove the frigging things from the various
> startup locations they occupy then run the associated app and, if you
> are running with sufficient privileges, the app "restores" the update
> checker startup without missing a beat.

Not to support Real Player (as I hate it too), but that at least has an  
option to disable this behaviour and does not replace the registry key  
once disabled.

Godsdamnit, there is a reason why the Run registry key is empty on my  
Windows box - that reason is I don't want programs to auto start...

dave
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