Why does firewall constantly ask me to allow iTunes to receive incoming connections?

I enabled Firewall for my MacBook Pro 2012, running OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion, about two months ago.
Everything was working fine, until a few weeks ago, when I was experiencing problems with logging in to my Mac.
I tried booting up my Mac but it wouldn't boot.
Then, I tried Recovery mode and restored my Mac from a time machine back-up.
Everything worked fine, but since then my Mac has constantly asked me "allow incoming connection for iTunes".
How can I solve this prolem?
I've never had to allow connections for iTunes until after restoring my Mac from that Time Machine back-up.

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it's due to the firewall security settings:
opens sys preferences
go to security
firewall
(authenticate by clicking the padlock at the bottom left corner)
advanced
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