You may have seen Bonjour service in your computer but don’t know what is it and how does it installed in your computer. Actually Bonjour is an Apple program to locate services on a local area network. The associated process of The Bonjour service is mDNSResponder.exe which will activate itself and run automatically upon Windows startup.

Bonjour usually installed along with apple product such as iTunes, iChat which apply Apple Software Update feature, other products that contains Bonjour service including Adobe Creative Suite 3，Pidgin, Skype, Fire, Adium and more. If you have installed one several of these programs in your computer but no long use them, it is suggested to uninstall them and the bundled Bonjour service, leaving Bonjour service in your computer could bring you potential security problems as this service is able to create port in the system and transfer data back and forth between the host company, if this process got infected by malicious threats, hacker could easily access to your system through the port that Bonjour service created. Read more →