Windows 7 Tip of the Day: Avoid iTunes
Saturday November 7, 2009
Mary Landesman, About.com's Guide to antivirus software, blogs about the incredibly dumb decision by Apple to make Windows 7 less secure by reimplementing a feature called autorun within iTunes. Autorun allows viruses to spread quickly over a network. Mary quite properly cautions anyone using Windows 7 to keep iTunes off their computer.
Come on Apple, change this immediately. You're constantly touting Mac's superiority over Windows in the security department -- yet you implement a change in Windows 7 that makes it less secure! Can you say hypocrisy?
I have two Vista machines. I tried iTunes for about a month. I was left with an optical drive disabled. When I went for help to my manufacturer, the very first tech asked if I had iTunes. By then I had dumped it. But, he said, I had been left with two filters, a high filter and a low filter, which disabled the optical drive. He went by remote access into my Registry and in about two minutes he deleted the filters and the optical drive was restored with no other work.
I see no use for iTunes or the iTunes store on a Windows machine. I use Winamp and WMP11. I also use Zune and have four (count’em) 120 gig Zune players to deal with my 500 gigs of audio and video. I buy music at Amazon. Amaazon is much cheaper and has a much greater variety of Classical music and Jazz.
Richard, great comments! Yeah, iTunes has always been quirky on Windows, since way back when. You’d think, given the size of the potential audience, Apple would work harder to get it right.
Come on, Itunes is the supreme music management tool. You guys are kidding yourselves.
An Apple app making Win 7 less secure? Sounds intentional to me! Apple, again, trying to get Windows users to switch over to them … by sabotage.