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What bonzi buddy seems to do is, purposly slow your computer and internet connection down over period of time by changing, adding, and removing registry keys. Then when your connection and computer gets really slow and bogged down, bonzi pops up a window to buy internet boost. After you purchase and install internet boost, it restores your registry keys that bonzi messed up and your internet seems to go faster.
Bonzi is also believed to be spyware and tracks your internet habbits, also any private information on your computer could eventualy become public information. If bonzi is left running on a computer for a few weeks, sometimes less, the computer will eventually crash. Its so gradual that you would not notice until your system grinds to a halt.
Because bonzi modifies so many registry keys there is really no way to fully undo the damage that he causes.
Unfortunatly the only way to truly get rid of bonzi is to reinstall windows.
But you can try this:How to Remove bonzi:
-Press Ctl alt del
-When task manager comes up; highlight neo.exe and choose end task.
-delete the bozi buddy directory c:\windows\program files\bonzibuddy
-do a search for bonzi on your local harddrive and delete anything that comes up.
-run regedit and search for keys containing bonzi, ctb, and neo.exe
-run msconfig, click on the startup tab and uncheck neo.exe
-download a registry cleaner and run it. You can get one from www.tweakfiles.com
-reboot.This should get rid of enough of him for you to function. But I would back up your important files and format and reinstall windows.
“Reinstall” Windows just to get rid of Bonzi!!!! I Don’t so!!!
Right click bonzi and select “Goodbye” to turn him off,
Right click the “S” in system tray and select “Exit”,
Go to start/ programs Bonzi Buddy and select “uninstall” to remove the “S”
Then go to add/remove and select Bonzi Buddy and remove,http://computing.net/windows95/wwwboard/forum/64436.html
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Uninstalling bonzi barely scratches the surface. His files are left behind and none of the registry changes are undone.
Bottem line: UNINSTALLING BONZI DOES NOT GET RID OF HIM.After he has been running on a system for a a few weeks, the damage he does is unrepairable. Unless you have winme and you do a restore. Or if bonzi has only been installed for a few days, and you have win98, you can do a scanreg /restore in dos.
Untill someone makes a bonzi buddy remover, that reverses all of the 500 + registry changes, your best bet to "FULLY" get rid of bonzi is to reinstall windows.Although, the sooner you remove him the less damage is done. So you may be able to get away with just removing him in the earlier stages.
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Yes I just found this out. I removed bonzi buddy a few weeks ago from 2 computers I worked on. I was just told today that there were remnants of him left in the registry and in the system files, so even doing a full custom unistall from add/remove programs does not insure a clean break from the little bugger.
Come on all you program whizzes out there, help us out. Someone create a BONZI BUDDY EXTERMINATOR, quick before that annoying purple monkey drives us all insane.
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Yeah ok,
You may find some files but there not active!!..But………
After uninstalling bonzi go to find and first type bonzi and remove all entries,
Then type in buddy and remove all entries,
Then go to regedit/Edit/Find and do the same there,
But don’t forget to empty you’re Temporary Internet files as well,
If you reinstall wins some of you’re programs will not work and you will have to reinstall them all again,
And with some mother boards (like GA-5AX) you cannot reinstall wins without the M/B CD-Rom.
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That process may be work for some, but if I were to type in buddy in my start/find/files and then delete everything that was there I would lose about 300 names off my and my family members AOL instant messenger "buddy" list and also names off my MSN "buddy" list. So I think I'll just stick with a manual search and seize removal proceedure.
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Just Initiate a Bonzi Buddy v.s. Prody Parrot death match... don't know if it will help anything, but it would be worth seeing.
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I DON'T KNOW IF THIS WILL WORK FOR EVERYONE, AS SOME OF YOU HAVE MORE COMPLEX COMPUTERS THAN I DO, HOWEVER, I WAS PLAGUED BY BONZI BUDDY ALSO SO HERE'S WHAT I DID. I DELETED ANY FILE I COULD FIND AND THREW IT IN THE RECYCLE BIN THEN EMPTIED THE RECYCLE BIN. THEN WHEN THAT WAS DONE, I LEFT THE COMPUTER ON AND UNPLUGGED THE POWER AT THE POWER SURGE OUTLET; LEFT IT OFF FOR 5 MINUTES AND WHEN I TURNED IT ON THAT PESKY MONKEY WAS GONE AND I HAVEN'T HAD HIM BACK. HOPE THIS WORKS FOR SOME OF YOU.
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I DON'T KNOW IF THIS WILL WORK FOR EVERYONE, AS SOME OF YOU HAVE MORE COMPLEX COMPUTERS THAN I DO, HOWEVER, I WAS PLAGUED BY BONZI BUDDY ALSO SO HERE'S WHAT I DID. I DELETED ANY FILE I COULD FIND AND THREW IT IN THE RECYCLE BIN THEN EMPTIED THE RECYCLE BIN. THEN WHEN THAT WAS DONE, I LEFT THE COMPUTER ON AND UNPLUGGED THE POWER AT THE POWER SURGE OUTLET; LEFT IT OFF FOR 5 MINUTES AND WHEN I TURNED IT ON THAT PESKY MONKEY WAS GONE AND I HAVEN'T HAD HIM BACK. HOPE THIS WORKS FOR SOME OF YOU.
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I work for H.P. and encountered the dreaded Bonzai effect on one of my user's computers. The simplest approach (and known good fix) for this is
go to Start--->settings---->Control Panel
Add/Remove Programs
click Bonzai and remove via automatic. Click "yes to all" when it asks to delete certain shared files"
Then (here is the new info) Reinstall Internet Explorer. All of the associated files are related to IE and the reinstall overwrites any damage the freaky blue monkey does.
A windows98 reinstall will work as it reinstalls IE but not necessary as IE reinstall gets to where it needs.
Also running a reg clean program (as mentioned in prior responses to this) is also advisable although not necessary. Unused reg keys just sit idle in the registry.
I am not certain this works for netscape, but in theory it should. We only use IE at HP.
This monkey was so brazen, it was rewriting registry keys to force users off the LAN settings and try to dial out. Most likely because internet boost only works with dial ups and is not intended for LAN use.
Shame on you Bonzai. Karma's coming, but for now the white horses of Computer engineering are here to help!
: )
*raises sword and smites down the blue monkey into a pool of goo*
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