Bonzai Buddy

[leda]

Hi there!
My Mom just downloaded something called Bonzai Buddy.. Has anyone ever heard of it? How do you uninstall it?
Leda

 

[garwain]

My Computer
Control Pannel
Add/Remove software

locate Bonzai Buddy in the list and hit the uninstall button

 

[crisc]

If only it were that simple, garwain.

Bonzai Buddy is a vile, sneaky, underhanded POS spyware that digs into your machine.

Have a look:

http://www.thecomplaintstation.com/b/bonzibuddy_toc.htm

 

[leda]

so, how is it removed???

 

[PulsaMatt]

try using AdAware ... I think that might remove it. Matt Laski
Sysadmin, Pulsafeeder Inc.
Dell Inspiron 7500
466 MHz Celeron, 384 MB RAM, 26 GB on 2 HDDs

 

[garwain]

those steps worked for me a year or 2 ago... I've managed to avoid it since then...

 

[hotfusion]

It comes packaged with the audiogalaxy satalite download, amongst, probably, others - but my firewall has never alerted me to this program trying to 'phone home' so I don't know exactly what it does do. It appeared blatantly on my desktop, so would it dare to be spyware? My suggestions are what I would try myself. If incorrect, I welcome corrections to my rather limited knowledge. Andy.

 

[PulsaMatt]

It definately is spyware. It looks like something cute and cuddly and just when you think you are safe it pounces into attack mode. LOL ... well maybe thats a little dramatic, but it is spyware, one of the more annoying ones. Get rid of it from Add/Remove programs and then run AdAware (available from Download.com I think) to make sure you got rid of all the nasty spyware evilness. Matt Laski
Sysadmin, Pulsafeeder Inc.
Dell Inspiron 7500
466 MHz Celeron, 384 MB RAM, 26 GB on 2 HDDs

 

[JonathanB]

This Bonzai Buddy is too stubborn to remove. I have to track down its *.exe file with Cleansweep before I completely stopped it from reappearing. Otherwise, after uninstalling, it keeps on showing up.

 

[Guest_imported]

Bonzai Buddy is a ripoff sneaky software that is not worthy of internet usage. The company uses it to spy on us. Once you install it you agree by the carefully typed FINE PRINT LETTERS, that you agree to use your precious personal home computer as an INTERNET AD SERVER to advertise for them.

Everyone please get Bonzai Buddy off your computers even though it wirtes itself all over the registry. Do all you can to save yourself before you become an advertising agency without getting the profits and income from it. They should pay us for working for them for free for a couple hours everyday while we advertise under their creepy fine print scam.

Bonzai Buddy is a PEST and it messed up my system too. I had to format my HDD and reinstall and I still did not get paid for all the ads I ran for them. It has messed up too many systems for way too long. With this cold hearted destruction of our Operating Systems one wonders if Bonzai Buddy was MADE BY BIN LADEN. It has to be, because Bonzai Buddy is as heartless and cruel as the coward who is still hiding is and that is what Bonzai Buddy does - it hides on your system and in the registry and you have to spend alot of time and use skill and precision and special tools to take it out of the mountains of files on your system as it is hiding in caves all over your HDD. Don't support this terrorist software any longer.

 

[mistanapesis]

I totally agree, spyware preys on people. PARASITES If your unsure....Dont do it!

 

[hotfusion]

Hmmm......... Possibly what appeared on my desktop was the install file. I deleted it, and there has been no evidence since of it anywhere, in add/remove or the registry.
Seems I was lucky........ My suggestions are what I would try myself. If incorrect, I welcome corrections to my rather limited knowledge. Andy.

 

[Guest_imported]

it mashed up my friends OS and he lost some files as he tried to remove from the registry and made wrong deletes. Bunzai Buddy!