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Class Action Filed Against Bonzi Software
An anonymous reader writes: "A nationwide class action lawsuit was filed on November 25, 2002, in the Superior Court of Spokane County against Bonzi Software, Inc. Bonzi is among the world's most prolific issuers of internet advertising banners. Bonzi's website has been ranked as one of the most frequently visited websites in the world. In case you are wondering Bonzi is the company responsible for those irritating popup ads which say things like 'Your computer is broadcasting an internet IP Address...' and 'Your internet connection is not optimized ...'" The attacking lawyers provide some samples of the ads they say are misleading.
That's the problem is so many people think it's a great thing, and so they install it only to wonder why they're system's messed up later on.
I vote we just declare open season on these guys.
*looks around for LART*
Yep. Just the other day I watched a sysadmin talk down a user who was freaking out over his computer not being safe for the internet. It was quite sad.
He's so cute, he can speak and sing songs while you're trying to code, and help you in your internet searches by reporting everything you do.
Who needs friends when you can have a BonziBuddy?
True warriors use the Klingon Google
It said I was broadcasting the IP address 243.65.42.656
It's almost as though they think we're retarded...
www.goat.. ah screw it.
I'm going to log it in my firewall, then join the lawsuit, with my logs as proof that I was deceived by these scoundrels.
You want to show them you logged them on your own firewall (probably self installed, running a hard-core version of Linux like Slackware or something similar non-intuitive), and then you fell for their stupid trick of Windows-lookalike silly error messages?
Like this:
Your honour, I tracked down their IP address using tools like nslookup and dig, entered it into my self-installed firewall running Linux using iptables, marking those packets and sending them to metalog (which if I may add, beats sysklogd hands down), so I have a proof that I fell for their ad. Here is my printout of my Gnome desktop (made with xwd and xwud and gimp just because I can). They deceived me! See!Am I the only person that thinks this is funny? I torture the crap out of our IS guys with it. We'll be getting to the end of a marathon meeting and I'll ask them if they finally stopped broadcasting our IP addresses for just anyone to see and connect to.
I think they're getting back at me with some weird HTTP proxy filter. For some reason, when I go to Slashdot, I see every story twice.
You mean my computer isn't broadcasting an IP address? That really scared me. I went out and bought $3000 worth of networking hardware to create a DMZ with border gateways and traffic shapers. Every single packet has to be personally approved by me to get out of my house. Ain't no hacker gonna hack my computer!
I can just see a server running your suggestion now:
"Hmmm. Mozilla on Linux. Crap! what theme is he running. Well, I can guess it's not KDE, since he's not running Konq. But is he running Sawfish, Blackbox, or TWM95? Crux, or one of those themes from Bowie Poag?
Screw it - he's probably blocking me anyway."
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