A grave for BonziBUDDY appeared at the end of the stream highlights for XP while Joel sings 'My Heart Will Go On' and laughs.

The text-to speech voice that is used for Bonzi is named Sydney and is taken from an old Lernout & Hauspie Microsoft Speech package.

The original webpage was shut down in 2008 but is still available on mirror sites. BonziBUDDY later appeared in Joel's Windows 7 Destruction Stream, as well as being a key component in the VineMEMZ and Bonzify viruses coded for Joel's Windows 10 and Windows Vista Destruction streams by Leurak, the user behind the MEMZ virus that Joel showcased in his Windows 10 Destruction stream.Īs a result of multiple claims of the program being adware and spyware, Bonzi Software was involved in legal trouble and discontinued the Bonzi program, while still keeping the webpage up. As Joel first attempted to download the BonziBUDDY program, a window popped up which then redirected to a rogue pornographic website, which possibly could have had malware as well. The program contained a backdoor exploit known as a Trojan that was meant to allow it to perform certain tasks but created a vulnerability that allowed viruses and spyware to being installed on the user's computer, circumventing any malware protection or other security the computer might have.

Joel now-famously entered his name as 'Expand Dong', which is now a meme in the Vinesauce community. One of the programs Joel downloaded was BonziBUDDY. BonziBUDDY became most well-known in the Vinesauce community when Joel streamed a Windows XP Destruction in which he attempted to infect his Windows XP OS with viruses.

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