On July 20th, YouTuber SuperMario157 uploaded a video titled 'Bonzi Buddy Speaks,' featuring a text-to-speech voice portraying the BonziBuddy gorilla as a sexually deviant computer program (shown below). On April 16th, 2007, PC World published a list titled 'The 20 Most Annoying Tech Products,' which ranked BonziBuddy as #6 of all time.

On August 3rd, 2003, Urban Dictionary user Joe submitted an entry for 'Bonzi Buddy,' referring to it as a 'stupid spyware program.' On September 15th, 2006, PC World listed BonziBuddy as the 8th worst website on the Internet. Several updated iterations of the adware were released by Bonzi Software until 2004, when the Federal Trade Commission ordered the company to pay $75,000 in fines for violating the Children's Online Privacy Act. In addition to adding the BonziBuddy purple monkey assistant, the software would install new search bars to the user's web browsers without their consent. There's a Malware Wiki for anyone who wants to research a particular piece of malware.BonziBuddy was initially released by the company Bonzi Software in 2000 on the website. Exercise at least some caution while going full Vinesauce on your VM. It's going to spread to folders on your actual hard drive, and you probably don't want that. Stuff like BonziBuddy should be safe to run on your computer, though.Īlso, this should be fairly obvious, but don't set up any shared folders between your VM and your host OS. Also, some viruses and malware spread over the network, so containing it within a VM won't protect you from spreading it to other computers on your network. Some viruses these days are written to detect whether or not they're running in a VM or not, and, thus, may not behave the way you expect them to, in order to prevent people from reverse-engineering or researching said piece of malware. Just because you're running a virus in a VM doesn't mean it's automatically safe and contained. Nice tutorial, though, there's probably something very important you should point out:

Bonzi buddy without virus