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| 404945 | 2005-11-17 00:42:00 | HI I see these computer shops charging you 60 or so dollars for virus removal, what exactly do they do. |
gum digger (6100) | ||
| 404946 | 2005-11-17 00:46:00 | Probally talk you into spending more money, My average service is $120, Couldn't do a very throuogh job for $60. Even at $120 I find over half the jobs take far longer then what the cost covers..... |
Metla (12) | ||
| 404947 | 2005-11-17 01:06:00 | at a guess, proberly just connect the hardrive to another pc and give it a quick scan, let it auto clean and then give it back hopeing your pc works afterwoulds. i've had pc's that have taken 8 hours to scan and remove virus's. i can't think of anyone who would only charge 60 for that in any trade. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 404948 | 2005-11-17 01:46:00 | Install AV, AS and firewall. Run all the scans and usually a few others such as Hijackthis as well. Clean it all out. Show them what to do as well as provide written docs. Thats the minimum. So yes $60 is fair. I charge $55 if they bring it to me - more if they want me to do all that there. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 404949 | 2005-11-17 01:55:00 | No offence but they are shameless. | gum digger (6100) | ||
| 404950 | 2005-11-17 01:57:00 | how so? You couldn't have someone fix your plumbing for that amount of money. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 404951 | 2005-11-17 02:00:00 | No offence but they are shameless. What.. because they have the gall to charge for something that you'd do on your own home PC for free? People gotta make a living, buddy! The place I used to work would charge a minimum $120 (1 hours charge) for all desktop PC work. We had a lot of incidents where it would take up to 2 hours to remove a virus and clean everything up, resulting in a $240 charge (+ GST), and people happily paid that. $60 ain't so bad. |
pixeldust (6619) | ||
| 404952 | 2005-11-17 02:19:00 | $60 is good price indeed...........i wont charge a 'set' fee for such work cause it can vary from half an hour to several........ | drcspy (146) | ||
| 404953 | 2005-11-17 02:28:00 | are you sure its not "virus removal FROM $60" ?? there is proberly little chance of it being cheap as $60, just the usuall bull advertising. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 404954 | 2005-11-17 02:48:00 | You could do it yourself first with all the free and good programes that you can get from the net. If that does not work or its not your cup of tea then take it to a shop and expect to pay whatever they charge for their service,experience,... :thumbs: |
memphis (2869) | ||
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