With this stuff being published on the web one after another I imagine they would act rather fast to look into any problems. Otherwise things like this will hurt their rep in general.
You should already know yourself that any software company can see an occasion goof up with any updates or newer version. Other then all this however that was the problem seen here through all of this making you wonder how much is actual or just someone making the mistake of allowing AVG to remove a false positive instead of looking to see what was being removed.
I made that one when being too quick on one occasion to click the remove button on Ad-Aware and then what...?
the trackball suddenly saw a problem when the programmable buttons weren't working as they should? The main executable had been deleted seeing the need to reinstall Intellipoint all over again.
The articles seem to suggest that since someone made that error an article was rushed out to make an issue.