For the past few months I guess I frequently get a request from this website to run 'Apple' from 'Apple Inc.' This is on a Windows 7 PC running IE11 (corporate pc).
Any idea what exactly this is and why it wants to run?
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We don't use anything from "Apple Inc". You're a subscriber and no ads being shown. I would check your own machine with some AV and MalwareBytes.
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I think it will be some Quicktime add-on or something - have you clicked Allow (for all)?
Yep, and we don't use Quicktime. I can only think that a tracking pixel (Google Analytics, Quantcast or LinkedIn) is triggering Quicktime to be used as the viewer instead of the system default. This happens probably if your system was changed to use Quicktime for viewing images - is this the case?
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Instead of just ignoring the issue, I would try running IE without add-ons as per this site. See if the issue still occurs. If it does, then I don't know.
If it doesn't, then you can start by disabling the add-ons one by one & retesting. That will identify the culprit. Then try to find out if you really need the add-on enabled. If not, rather keep it disabled.
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Instead of just ignoring the issue, I would try running IE without add-ons as per this site. See if the issue still occurs. If it does, then I don't know.
If it doesn't, then you can start by disabling the add-ons one by one & retesting. That will identify the culprit. Then try to find out if you really need the add-on enabled. If not, rather keep it disabled.
Without add-ons, the issue does not occur. I'm 90% sure it's the add on I previously identified, however, as a corporate pc, I do not have rights to disable the add on. Why the add on is enabled on 1 pc, and disabled on another in what should be a standardised image I am not sure.
No changes to which applications are used for images have been made. I could not see what was triggering the issue on the site.
As I don't have the rights to change the add-ons, I will just have to ignore it - or use the other PC, or use a different browser.
No big issue really.
Or just let it do it. But unnecessary add-ons are a waste of memory, always.
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