iTunes Trojan Horse Small.Bog: iTunes Virus Alert
AVG today has a truly alarming alert for iTunes users – a virus. An iTunes virus is very unlikely to exist. iTunes installations are secure and are free of viruses or spywares. iTunes is one legit app that doesn’t need to include malicious codes like the so-called “trojan horse small.bog“.
Screenshot of the iTunes Store
If you have encountered this “iTunes virus” aka iTunes Trojan Horse Small.Bog, don’t give in to the prompts or alerts you’ve received from AVG Antivirus software (if you haven’t done so yet). This is clearly a false positive and should be ignored. If you quarantine or remove all the alleged viruses it found in iTunes, your iTunes installation will get screwed. Re-installation though is easy but why waste more time?
To ignore the iTunes virus warning alert, proceed to Resident Shield -> Manage Exceptions -> Add Path (to iTunes and iPod directories), i.e., C:Program FilesiTunes as well as C:Program FilesiPod. Nod32 ESET doesn’t recognize any iTunes virus or any trojan horse (small.bog) and it has a free edition like AVG. We suggest you try this antivirus software if you’ve decided to uninstall AVG. Just a friendly suggestion. 
Also, if you’re wondering if this error in detecting the iTunes virus mentioned above, read more about the fake alerts given by Home Antivirus 2010 (removal instructions also discussed) and you’ll see that antivirus softwares really do screw up.
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AVG really has to be blamed about the iTunes virus aka Trojan Horse Small.Bog because why can’t their antivirus software determine which is a virus and which is not? I’ll use another program to scan my computer. Maybe it will not report the iTunes Trojan Horse Small.Bog as a virus or malware just like what AVG did today. I’m really frustrated!
Love this article but have 1 question;
My comp w AVG gave me the small.BOG warning when we tried to access itunes. We cannot get into itunes, nor can we download another version of it with out getting the virus warning.
If it is a “fake virus” how did we get it, why does it affect my itunes, and why can’t I redownload itunes to save my music library???
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Mary LA58,
Thanks for the comment. Actually we are currently investigating the iTunes Trojan Horse Small.Bog and why it was declared by AVG as an iTunes virus. iTunes Trojan Horse Small.Bog “could” be a bug. This is only a speculation but we really think so. Remember, when you open iTunes, you are accessing the iTunes store (web access). The bug must be on iTunes’ end (web server or javascript) which affects the files loaded in your local hard drive because your computer downloads data from Apple servers when you load iTunes in your computer memory. This is probably the reason why AVG considers more than 180 files in iTunes as virus-infected.
Whenever I plug in my ipod I am getting viruses. I use malware to remove them. I deleted itunes and now my computer is running great. What is causing this? I also dont plug in my ipod any more