4 ms·
it was 100% malware, why are people looking back at this fondly lately?
by gameswithgo 5y ago
it was 100% malware, why are people looking back at this fondly lately?
- Fnoord 5y agoPerhaps because they find it cute, like Netbus' Whack-a-mole.
- boomboomsubban 5y agoSpyware and adware, yes. Malware, no. They weren't trying to cause damage.
- userbinator 5y agoIronic how these days Windows itself probably contains more spyware and adware and likely exfiltrates far more data about you than Bonzi Buddy was ever able to.
- dannyw 5y agoIt's as much malware as Google Photos is malware.
- dehrmann 5y agoIt had a cute mascot. Same thing with cookies--they sound cute and friendly.
- Thorrez 5y agoWhat malicious stuff did it do?
- swebs 5y ago>In 2002, an article in Consumer Reports Web Watch labelled BonziBuddy as spyware, stating that it contains a backdoor trojan that collects information from users. 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, installing a toolbar, and serving advertisements.[11] Of course, back then we called software that behaved that way malware. Today we'd call it Windows 10.