applemobiledeviceservice.exe

Anyone know what this process is?
There’s only one item that internet searching turns up on it and that seems to think that it has something to do with itunes.

It keeps reinvoking itself after I kill it using the Task Manager.

It seems that a process with the name apple in it should not be running on my PC with XP service pak 2

And mobiledeviceservice makes you think of a wireless hacker at work.

What’s is this process? How do I get rid of it for good?