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BonziBuddy, stylized as BonziBUDDY, is a piece of adware distributed by Bonzi Software between 1999 and 2004. The software provides an on-screen software agent designed to help users surf the Internet by using Microsoft Agent technology. In 1999, the software used a green parrot called "Peedy" licensed from Microsoft, and in later versions, a purple gorilla named Bonzi. Upon a user's choice the on-screen agent would share jokes and facts, manage downloading using its download manager, sing songs and other functions.A number of sources identify BonziBuddy as spyware, a claim the company disputes.
In 2002 an article in Consumer Reports Web Watch labelled BonziBuddy as spyware, stating that it contains a backdoor trojan in that it collects information from users. Among the activities the program is said to engage in include constantly resetting the user's web browser homepage to bonzi.com without the user's permission, prompting and tracking various information about the user, and serving advertisements.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBuddy
However the servers that this software would phone home to are no longer in operation meaning the spyware/virus aspect of BonziBuddy no longer works.
It is still recommended that you run this software on a Windows XP Virtual Machine and not on your Main OS.
Contains versions 2, 3, and 4 of BonziBuddy.
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