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He was soon booted into a floppy disk, that contained Bonzi Buddy's software. I used to work in an Internet café in the early-mid 2000s and the first time came across BonziBuddy, it was a very frustrating and time-consuming task to remove it (and similar malware) from a Windows OS. Bonzi Buddy's first time opening his eyes was at the FBI Secret Lab, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.

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