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tamimio • yesterday at 10:10 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

These useless programs are like what you used to see back in win98 or winxp with dancing monkey or scoopydoo walking all over your desktop windows, which I think later turned to human dancers before being used to distribute all sort of viruses.


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itomato • today at 12:31 AM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBuddy

"BonziBuddy was described as spyware[1] and adware,[2] and was discontinued in 2004 after Bonzi Software, Inc. faced lawsuits and fines regarding the software.[3]"

It's just a matter of time before something like a "Zoltar screensaver for Basecamp" becomes an IP siphon.

makmanalp • yesterday at 10:54 PM

sheep.exe was not useless, I loved it. you take that back.