Virus attacking iTunes causing havok?

We've been using iTunes in the family now for a few years and i've concluded that there is one or several viruses attacking my use of iTunes and it is going undetected by scans by Symantec Endpoint Protection and McAfee OAS.
In the past, something has removed iTunes and Quicktime from our computer, given false-positive window confirming the software was reinstalled when it wasn't, duplicated our library causing need to move library to ext. hard drive, and disabling shortcuts to iTunes on desktop causing me to have to navigate directly to iTunes.exe using Windows Explorer and creating a new shortcut. The latest is that something is causng us to miss some charactes when we tye somethng like this sentence which is xtremely frustrating.
Is thre a known virus out thee attacking iTunes causing such roblems and is thee a fix from Apple to eradicate computers of the virus or is ther third-party software tha will find and eradiate it.
Reading som of the other posts leads me to beliee that this is a mor widsead poblem than jus my comuter and I'm surprise that Apple is not doing more to sole something that appears t be a direc threat to the computers of customers who use this Apple product.

+"The latest is that something is causng us to miss some charactes when we tye somethng like this sentence which is xtremely frustrating."+
It does not sound like an iTunes problem, and it does not sound like a virus either. Get your computer checked.

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