Apple Quicktime: Spyware

I just tried to watch a trailer on Apple’s web site and, after I clicked “Play”, SpyBot Registry Guard told me that Quicktime was trying to insert itself into my Windows startup items as some sort of “qttask.exe”. Needless to say I denied the request and banned it from trying this sort of thing in future. To me this is just more spyware and junkware trying to suck up CPU, RAM, and slow down my machine. I am surprised that Apple would try it on so brazenly, but then what else would one expect from a company that bundles spyware with iTunes that routinely records what songs its users are playing so it can sell them more junk?

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