iTunes Missing Required Files... AKA. PLEASE HELP.

[laughingperson5]

Hi.
When I tried opening up iTunes today, I got the message,

iTunes missing required files, Please reinstall iTunes

or something like that.
Anyways. I kept trying to re-open iTunes and one of the times it did open. Now it's opening seamlessly but I'm worried that the message will come back up again. Does anyone what happened? And if there is a fix to this?

EXTRA: I scanned my computer with AVG and in the first five minutes, all of my infected files were iPod Mobile Service and iTunes related.

EDIT: I'll get some screenshots up when the messages pop up again and the AVG scan.

 

[firecrasher]

You're not alone, happened to me too... I posted some screenshots in an earlier thread. Did you get the same errors?

 

[laughingperson5]

You're not alone, happened to me too... I posted some screenshots in an earlier thread. Did you get the same errors?

Could you link me to the thread please?

 

[firecrasher]

Yes, here is the thread: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/752860/

and I can do one better...

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2092831&tstart=0

looks like an AVG problem. I'm going to try uninstalling AVG and then reinstalling iTunes.

Will update you in a few minutes.

 

[firecrasher]

Ok - here's what worked for me:

A couple minutes ago uninstalled everything Apple-related (and downloaded iTunes but didn't reinstall yet), uninstalled AVG, rebooted, installed iTunes, and downloaded and installed AVG.

So far, so good. I also added my Program Files\iTunes\ to the exceptions list. Hopefully this will work. I'll keep you posted.