# How much to donate - virus-clearing help

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-donate-virus-clearing-help/588119>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 7, 2011, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-donate-virus-clearing-help/588119 "2011-07-07T02:09:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-donate-virus-clearing-help/588119/1 "2011-07-07T02:09:28Z")

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So my daughter got the clap.

OK, the computer-clap, not the “she’s too young and you’re bad parents” variety. I went to one of the online forums where they help with such things, they had me run various diagnostics, and cleared things out using ComboFix (plus a bunch of other things to make sure it was really clean). Have added a different firewall, and a separate spyware monitor (I think I had thought AVG covered that as well), and also added adblock in case the malware came from an ad… and we’re back in service.

Donations are optional, but I want to make one.

How much would you donate? 25? 50? 150?

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**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-donate-virus-clearing-help/588119/2 "2011-07-07T02:40:22Z")

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The guy who cleared up my virus charged me $60.