s.mzstatic

Mzstatic.com takes me to the Apple website. I have personally been hacked by Apple and given a static IP address from their domain and then cyberattacked by them when I was preparing to make a claim to the Office of Civil Rights against the University of AK. I found reference to mzstatic in a file on my computer when I ran a search on the computer for Margaret Stock who I think made the arrangements with Apple to put me on UA's enterprise system using VNC.

This is very annoying every time I open iTunes this stuppid little thing pops up...

Yup this very same issue has started with me too. I updated to latest iTunes a few weeks back - first time I saw message was today. a whois shows that this s.mzstatci.com site is owned by Apple. The sites regestered here with the following contact details.

Cupertino, CA 95014

US

Telephone: +1.4089744286

Fax: +1.4089744286

Email:

I'm going to email Mr/Mrs/Miss Eddings for a responce to this discussion thread.

I'll let you know how I get on

Regards

Sent email 3 days ago no response - but the error message has gone away.

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For the record, I'm getting this message too. I'm posting here out of hopes Apple looks on these forums to gain points of action. Apple- chalk-up one more user affected by this issue.

If visitors here would spend 10 or 15 min doing some real homework, confusion and misinformation wouldn't clutter the Apple Discussions forum so much. Akamai Technologies is not owned by Apple. It's one of the largest, probably THE largest company world-wide in helping internet-tech related companies, generally large-to-medium size, ease the flow of network processes and content delivery. It's normal, and a good thing to see it listed on a network monitor, often not only with the term "akamai" interted, but "edgesuite" as well.

And the main corporate office is not a neighbor to Apple in Cupertino It's in Cambridge, Mass.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akamai_Technologies

no need to be so cranky. i don't understand it either. viruses/malware are new to me and i've had a difficult time trying to sort it out -- not to mention i don't have a ton of time to devote to it. a long time ago there wasn't as big a fear of these threats so please bear with us while we get it figured out. thank you.

I've been getting this notice about s.mzstatic.com, and given your guidance that it's part of Apple's server network, I've told iTunes to continue connecting even though it says the server is not trusted. Several more similar warnings followed, but I clicked continue to each. I then got the notice of an iTunes update and clicked on that, but the App Store now says it cannot connect to the internet so I can't download any updates. This is in spite of the fact that all my other internet apps are open and functioning -- Firefox, Outlook, etc.

If the App Store can't connect, do you have any suggestions on how I can receive updates?

Thanks!

i am unable to use itunes to download a cd due to this same message. what can i do to regain the use of itunes?

Under the advanced tab, Reset the iTunes Cache

It finally works. Thanks a lot!

I've tried a couple of times. No luck. And then iTunes won't link to the Store; and when I go to my account, it only shows a non-html version.