What is Bonjour mDNSesponder.exe?

I’m having a bit of issues with my ancient Dell Inspiron 8600 and had a look at my services.msc running on my windows. I was shocked to find a services named #Id_String_32378923_3232….. It fully looks like a trojan!

mdnsresponder

Luckily, it turns out that this is used by Apple iTunes to autodiscover services, computers, and devices on the computer or the network. Phew… I haven’t become a zombie bot! Just to be on the safe side, I’ve disabled it nonetheless.

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