You search up bonzi buddy but your other friends told you that bonzi buddy is a virus "What's this? You ask as you search for a friend to talk to online You go onto google chrome and search for something
It’s the story of how one seemingly harmless ape preyed on early internet users and then paid the price, teaching all of us how much we had to lose from so-called “free” downloads.You woke up one morning and decided to go on the computer you log into your windows 10 OS system In the third episode of Kernel Panic, we explore the rise and fall of one the friendliest-looking pieces of malware of all time.
Behind the facade of that friendly gorilla, Bonzi Software, the company responsible for BonziBuddy, was collecting private information and contacts from the unsuspecting internet users who downloaded it - and bombarding them with ads and pop-ups that Bonzi would profit from. Kids, grandparents, and office employees were all downloading BonziBuddy with abandon - until it all imploded. When that purple gorilla popped up on your screen, it would've seemed just like all the other virtual assistants out there already.
Cute virtual assistants, like Microsoft Bob and Clippy, were designed to fill in those knowledge gaps, becoming your friendly guides to the internet. At the same time, new users were flocking to the internet without any idea what was safe to click on and download. In response, the internet turned into an advertising ecosystem, with pop-up ads taking over browsers. Following the burst of the dot com bubble, investors pulled their money from the web and online companies needed a new way to profit.
Bonzi wasn’t your friend it was malware, and it was released at the perfect time. It could talk, search for you, sing, send emails - and anyone with a computer could download it for free. In the early 2000s, a purple, talking gorilla named BonziBuddy was billed as a free virtual assistant, ready for all your internet needs.
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