ITunes started by itself.. Started playing "Thriller" video ***

Is it possible for someone to have gained wireless access to my macbook? My macbook was sitting on the table with only me in the house.. next thing I know the Thriller video in my itunes starts playing. I'm home alone and was no where near the computer. I didn't even have itunes open. I know this sounds like a joke but I'm really serious. I don't believe in ghost or anything like that but I'm kind of worried about security now. Any ideas??

I'm having the same problem. It started a couple of hours ago. I turned off the infrared receiver thinking it could be a neighbor with a new apple tv or something, but a few minutes later itunes boots up and starts playing some random music again. I checked ical just in case, but I know i've never set up an event using itunes music as an alarm.
In fact, as I type this, after i've turned off all Sharing (including printer, screen sharing, file sharing, all of them), turned off bluetooth, itunes just booted up again and played some random music. All I have left to turn off is wifi which i will do once I hit send to this post. It's very annoying and i also worry about security issues.
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