Hi.. in connection with some messing about with virtualisation, I have found myself engaged in a fruitless search for that good ol' spyware companion BonziBuddy.. Since the world woke up to its evil, it has become very difficult to find.

Has anybody got a copy of the 7.7mb (or thereabouts) installer?

There are stub installers in the 350k-2.5mb region, but they all attempt to connect to now non-existent installation archives online.

if anyobody has this or knows of a working link, I could stop this foolish quest & get on with my life..

well, ill look around for ya...

FOUND IT

that one was corrupted, ill keep lookin

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Network...y_Download.html


my os keeps blocking the download (xp x64) tehy all come out 4kb, try it yourself, and if that doesnt work ill get some more

As soon as I seen the title of the thread I had flash backs of that stupid purple ape

I didn't even know people still used that, I can look around.

Hagar, I don't quite understand why you would want to download that nasty piece of spyware. Are you going to just play around with it for nostalgic purposes? lol

At any rate, you could try searching the Wayback Machine's archived version of the Bonzi site and see if they didn't cache the file.

Good Luck

Hmm nice idea, but wayback machine appears not to have any record of bonzi.com (or none that I could find)

did the link work?

nope, tried that one before.. it leads back to bonzi.com which...... isn't hosting it anymore...

If this was spyware, why want it?

bonzibuddy i cant find it but i do know where to get viruses

i looked it up and i cant get the ape but i found some of the included software by going to http://www.whenu.com/ and clicking download SaveNow

And then there's the guy by the same name who's been lurking around the Leopard forum, giving dire warnings that Apple is caching our IP addresses and will sue us for piracy. I hate that guy.

Hagar, why do you even want it? Is it for testing or something?

Heh.. you're you're concerned about "BonziBuddy" telling you your ip is being logged?

Like This?

Doesn't that seem strangely ironic?

In any case, I first wanted it out of curiosity, I ran some of the installers in crossover, but like I said, they're incomplete. I remember when it was everywhere and you had to make an effort to avoid it.. seeing that it is apparently eradicated from the entire internet got me searching and... well now I can't give up...

What is that suppose to mean

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Network...y_Download.html

its 7 something megs

And if that doesn't work, Limewire 1.9b had the option of installing bonzi buddy from what I've been reading.

did you actually get a download? I never get anything more than 4k off that. As I said previously, I have found some .exe's but never the full item.


[Edit]
I looked on oldversion.com for limewire, but none of them are large enough to contain BonziBuddy, so it must be an online install option which.... no longer works..

I may try it anyhow on the off-chance that it installs off p2p where there may still be a copy floating around..

maybe you could check some file sharing networks

checked gnutella, nothing

anyone know any software it came with?

I looked all over and they're all dead

You'll probably have to find someone that still has it stashed away on an old drive thrown in the back of a closet. I remember when that crap first came out and I had to search around for a way to get rid of it

This is not a thread I would have expected to see ever on a computer related forum. lmao

well... good luck, it looks like the death of the bonzibuddy, although you couldhave got it last year :/

Stop the clock! found it!

A very clever individual known only as reverett found that by skipping the ads on

http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?500000032686

you eventually get a chance to download from:

ftp://ftp.kddlabs.co.jp/WinSite/win95/netutil/bbsetup.exe

Don't try this at home kids! etc...


DISCLAIMER

The above links should not be clicked under any circumstances, for any reason or purpose whatsoever, and no-one can be held responsible for the consequences if you so much as think of looking at those URL's

Nice going there let us know how it turns out, hehe

I just dlld it on my new xp x64 install, should i wory?

hahaha. no everything will be fine

Dice

I remember when BonziBuddy was a parrot... those were the good old days. I got rid of him when he became an ape. I found the ape so damn UGLY!!!

hes like donkey cong.

Quest is not over yet since the setup reverett foudn only contains the parrot but where is the ape?

lolz, i just had a bsod, and the actual direct link to the downloads changed to

ftp://ftp.telus.net/pub/winsite/win95/netutil/bbsetup.exe



they got smart! lol too much traffic, darn, same with my signature (that i just got done making and that got deleted thanks to a bsod.... :/)

and emm... mirroring it to rapidshare to be nice to that site

http://rapidshare.com/files/16974847/bbsetup.exe.html

Aww I missed this guy, my computer is too quick without him

http://files.brothersoft.com/bbsetup.exe

there ya go . . . direct link

ooops nvm

Darn it what's the world coming to? They're depriving us of the sort of high-quality spyware that we used to enjoy in the Windows 98 days. The little paperclip guy in Microsoft Word just can't fill Bonzi's shoes.

Just out of curiosity, if Bonzi got busted for their spyware, does BonziBuddy actually send your personal data anywhere? I'm thinking it sends it to a now-nonexistent place.

Has anyone found a link to the full install of the purple ape? I missed this guy. The parrot is ok and has many of the same features but doesn't live up to that ape! haha but yeah, I guess these guys aren't as bad now in terms of the spyware they contain, seeing as they were shut down over the court case, but that's just a guess... Even the main bonzi site has no trace of them anymore...

I have a copy of BonziBuddy that I can upload if anyone wants.

hmmm i think i would like a copy of that colonel, my school runs on macs(we just got tons of the new iMac C2D in) but for some unitelligent reason in computer class they teach how to use windows computers.......that will soon end with bonzibuddy.........

"I have a copy of BonziBuddy that I can upload if anyone wants. "

That would be awesome thanks Colonal! Is it a copy of the purple ape in the full 7mb install file?

I found most of the add-ons for BonziBuddy which you once had to pay for if anyone is interested. They're available for free download at this site: http://www.xs4all.nl/~aviator/bonzi/monkeytells.html


Cheers.

I really find the prospect of paying for spyware to be funny.

First off, it's Colonel, but I'll let you slide this time.
Second, yes it is the full install. It's 7.8MB.

Ha, I remember everyone in the IRC Staff room searching for hours for that install file.

Okay, I've finished uploading it to my Box account. PM me if you want a link.

This crap was rated the 6 th most annoying software ever on PCWorld. It's only two slots ahead of Vista XD

Colonel do you think you could post a link to the BonziBuddy setup file on this forum? Thanks, can't wait to download. Cheers.

I have it, PM me for it to save the day.

Hagar, you might as well make a program called "InstallEveryPieceOfSpywareAndLike Pro."

weres the link?

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=305653
Take a look at those

I sent you a PM. Could you send me the link?

Why are people searching desperately for an old piece of spyware? Cute? I don't get it.

ok i am redoing that site and will post the links up soon