"Do you want iTunes to accept incoming network connections?"

I'm glad it worked and it even solved your other issues. 🙂

Will reinstalling iTunes cause me to lose any custom changes? I spent a lot of time updating and modifying missing album art. I'd rather not have to manually do all of that again.

just want you to know if the problem re apears for you don't go through all those hard steps just go into SYSTEM PREFERENCES then into FIREWALL --> ADVANCED look for the itunes file and press the minus when it is marked.

i tried it out and it works.

the allowe deny apears for about 0.1 seconds and allowes it

just a easier way of doing it and not losing all your files

It appears that the Firewall checks and remembers the signatures of "approved" applications. But, for some reason (bug?) when you update the applications, in this case iTunes, it does not refresh the signature it has remembered.

So by deleting the entry in Firewall, you are asking it to remember again, when iTunes starts. Because iTunes is known software (it has Apple's signature on it) you are not asked anymore.

Thank's to Portable. It's OK for me !!! YES !!! Thank's a lot. 🙂

This seems to have done the trick for me too, thanks!

Thank you PortableGenius. That message was really getting on my nerves.

Thank you Co2Footprint. Your recommendated solution worked for me. So far anyway. Much easier to perform your suggestion than the more complicated process of deleting and reinstalling iTunes. Much appreciated.

Yes

Glad this worked for iTunes, will have to try the plist thing aswell as other apps are putting up the same issue. I find Lion quite buggy and sure hope Apple are not letting their succes allow them to get sloppy. Quite concerned about the soon to be released Mountain Lion though. I don't think it's a good sign Apple is moving up the pace pushing new OS'

Running Lion, I had the issue with several apps, including iTunes.

I didn't need to chmod that secure log file. I just deleted that plist file, rebooted, turned the firewall back on, and now I am only asked to authorize connections for an app the first time it runs.

Thanks much!

Thank you. This finally worked for me.

THANKS buddy!!! After WEEKS of been mad about this I finally found YOU!! 😉 loll

This issue cause me a lot of problem especialy with my Apple TV

None of the solutions posted above worked long term for me, but upgrading to Mountain Lion has solved it

I had the same problem which appeared when I bought an iPhone and synced it for the first time, which required an update to the latest version of iTunes.

The first sync seems to have automatically enabled "Share my library on my local network" in the Sharing tab of iTunes Preferences. The Sync app has also caused a number of other apps to slow down or get buggy that have nothing to do with the IPhone (legit, robust, professional apps like Adobe CS and Avid).

At any rate, I disabled wireless sync, deselected the library sharing option, and now iTunes launches dialog-free and my pro apps are behaving normally again.

Of course, now I can't share my library on my local network or sync wirelessly, which are supposed to be key value propositions of these products.

iPhone/iOS/OSX FAIL.