AFP548 - Topic: What’s IIDCAssistant?

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June 1, 2005 at 10:37 pm #361855

Anonymous
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I recently noticed a process called IIDCAssistant running on my server. Anyone know what it is?

June 2, 2005 at 7:05 pm #361865

andrina
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Do you have any firewire devices connected to your server?

June 16, 2005 at 10:55 pm #362007

Anonymous
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No firewire devices are connected.

June 18, 2005 at 2:05 pm #362016

Anonymous
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got the same since a few days-my thoughts:
option1: it came with a update from apple
option2: we´ve seen one of the first viruses for mac…

im a noob regarding pcs/macs but its not usual that a process opens everything which is connected with sh/nat and or bluetooth exepting
my internet connection prg

June 21, 2005 at 3:30 pm #362042

Anonymous
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possible-i noticed that this process executes everytime when i open icq. but i couldnt localize it yet

October 4, 2005 at 6:47 am #363460

iWiring
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It is most certainly part of iSight, Apple’s webcam platform.

December 21, 2005 at 1:26 pm #364501

Anonymous
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it’s part of the iSightAudio.plugin located in
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/iSightAudio.plugin
as far as I know, if you don’t use iSight, you can delete this, I did and things seem fine.

March 15, 2006 at 5:46 am #365693

Anonymous
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It has to do with the iSight that’s for sure. If you watch the process in Activity Monitor or use top you’ll notice that the CPU usage drops from 2.50% to 0% when you close the lens cover.

When you click on the video icon in your buddy list to open the iSight preferences the CPU usages bumps up to 2.60 and 2.70%.

Thought you’d like to know…

March 23, 2006 at 5:01 am #365771

Anonymous
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More info about IIDCAssistant at the following link:
http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2005/tn2083.html

have a good day,
Pierre.
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