Li'l Abner was thinking very hard and all he could come up with was:
> 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 outdated versions of MBam and SAS.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?

Not at all. I hate when people try to use virtually unheard of
products to protect their computers. Unfortunately, I bang my head
frequently against the walls that are people's unwillingness to listen
to my security (or other) recommendations, and then they get problems
that I have to fix.

It's very frustrating. Then I remembered an old adage I have, "you
can't convince anyone of anything they refuse to believe."

Good luck.

--
-There are some who call me...
Jim


"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."
- Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')