I have a friend that brought me a new HP laptop he just purchased from
Staples. The guy is very gullible and came home with Avanquest's Fix-It
Utilities Professional (good for 3 PC's) and Office Home & Student 2010
Family Pack (also good for 3 PC's).

He also brought his old Dell desktop. It's a Pentium 4 1.7 Ghz. I've worked
on it before. It has the free version of Avira (ver 10.0.something) and
outdated versions of MBam and SAS. It appears to be clean.

The laptop came with Norton Internet Security and a trial version of
Office. He wants Norton removed and Fix-It Utilities installed. And the
Office Suite installed.

The old desktop has Avira and an already better version of Office 2010
installed on it. He wants Avira taken off and replaced with Fix-It. And of
course he has pointed out all the wonderful stuff Fix-It will do. You can
read it right off the box.

Amongst the things it says on the box is "Real-time virus & spyware
protection". I have never even seen Avanquest mentioned in antivirus
comparisons.

The only *good* reviews I can find on Fix-It are the ones written by
Avanquest themselves.

Am I wrong in trying to talk him out of it?

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