My iTunes reset my whole Library by 8 weeks and Error -50

Hello I'm very angry right now. I went to open iTunes tonight and it asked me to open a library so I chose the one that was most recent, but a lot of my stuff had gotten deleted. I went to download all my stuff again, but it said that I had Error -50. I reset my connection and it still didn't work. I logged out of iTunes then closed it and opened it back up and then logged back in but that didn't work. I NEED HELP I WANT TO GET MY MOVIES BACK!!

Scratch that...  Just yanked Virusbarrier X6 (Intego) from both my MacPro's and what were very sluggish machines (including the error -50 in iTunes) seem to have magically regained youth and vigor...  Will try it for the next couple of days, but it would appear that VirusBarrier was at the root of all issues... 

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