The software 'interacts with users while they are online, providing shopping advice, jokes, and trivia. The software used Microsoft Agent technology similar to Office Assistant, and originally sported Peedy, a green parrot character, before it became the purple ape. BonziBUDDY received wide recognition as trojanpredominantly as a piece of adwarethough claims of spyware capabilities have been made against it. It first surfaced as a green talking parrot named Peedy, before taking the form of an animated purple gorilla that resided on a user's desktop and communicated through the employment of Microsoft Agent technology.Īs the years since Bonzi. There are inherent dangers in the use of any software found on the Internet, and Microsoft cautions you to make sure that you completely understand the risk before retrieving any software from the Internet.The official website stated it would help a person explore the Internet through various functions along with their own sidekick. Microsoft does not control these sites and has not tested any software or information found on these sites therefore, Microsoft cannot make any representations regarding the quality, safety, or suitability of any This information as a convenience to you. If you download executable from the internet, you are doing so at your own risk. Purple gorilla Bonzi back onto their computers without the spyware, but incomplete as it only replaced the Peedy.acs file and still only used version 1.0 of the BonziBUDDY program, with the green parrot. Over the years, several users have found out ways to get the Website at the end of 2008, Since then, all the download websites removed the product's downloads from as they are online setup files that connect to the website to download the files.

The official website of BonziBUDDY was shut down in 2005 and a termination of the whole The website (no longer available) also made products like Internet Boost '99 or MaxAlert (used a blue parrot similar to Peedy). Info from the website: Some sources identify Bonzi Buddy as spyware and the company has been ordered to pay fines.

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