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One reader was quoted as criticizing the program because it "kept popping up and obscuring things you needed to see".

One of the last newspaper articles written about BonziBuddy while it was still in distribution described it as spyware and a "scourge of the Internet". Another article found in 2006 on the BusinessWeek website described BonziBuddy as "the unbelievably annoying spyware trojan horse". Spyware Ī number of sources identify BonziBuddy as spyware, a claim the company disputed. In 2002, an article in Consumer Reports Web Watch labelled BonziBuddy as spyware, stating that it contains a backdoor trojan that collects information from users. The activities the program is said to engage in include constantly resetting the user's web browser homepage to without the user's permission, prompting and tracking various information about the user, installing a toolbar, and serving advertisements. Trend Micro and Symantec have both classified the software as adware.

Spyware Guide 's entry on the program also states that it is adware. reported the settlement of a class action suit on. Originally brought against Bonzi Software on 4 December 2002, the suit accused Bonzi of using its banner advertisements to deceptively imitate Windows computer alerts, alerting the user that their IP address is being broadcast. In the settlement, Bonzi Software agreed to modify their ads so that they looked less like Windows dialog boxes and more like actual advertisements. On February 18, 2004, the Federal Trade Commission released a statement indicating that Bonzi Software, Inc. Was ordered to pay $75,000 in fees, among other aspects, for violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act by collecting personal information from children under the age of 13 with BonziBuddy. Archived from the original on 21 June 2000. "AppNote: Automating the installation and execution of Spybot Search & Destroy with ZENworks". are all spyware-laden programs that I have encountered far too often in the field on my users' machine Hotbar, Bonzi Buddy, Gator eWallet and Comet Cursors.Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. "A Brief History of BonziBuddy, the Internet's Most Friendly Malware".^ "The 20 Most Annoying Tech Products"."Prying Eyes Lurk Inside Your PC Spyware Spawns Efforts at Control".