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Carpuma.com

Posted: February 14, 2012

Carpuma.com Screenshot 1Carpuma.com is a search engine website that's cloned from similar websites with identical features, aesthetics and risks along with their similar web addresses. Although Carpuma.com may try to persuade you that its search functionality is reputable, SpywareRemove.com malware analysts have noted that Carpuma.com's only form of promotion in the web is through PC threats that redirect your browser to Carpuma.com and its relatives without your consent. These traits, along with the occasionally spotty nature of Carpuma.com's actual search results, make interaction with Carpuma.com something to be done with extreme care at the best of times. If you've experienced redirects to Carpuma.com or other 'puma' websites, you should also consider your PC to be potentially infected by high-level PC threats and use an appropriate anti-malware application to resolve the situation. Redirects to Carpuma.com, it should be noted, are usually unsolvable by making changes to your web browser (such as altering its security settings or even deleting it).

Don't Let Carpuma.com's Browser Hijackers Turn Your Searches Into Their Roadkill

Carpuma.com and related sites (including Loanpuma.com, Buffpuma.com, Dietpuma.com, Foodpuma.com, Internetpuma.com, Insurancepuma.com and Creditpuma.com) share a single template between them with only minor coloration and name changes to differentiate between them. As of the time of this writing, Carpuma.com itself hasn't been blacklisted for such offenses, but given its suspicious circumstances, it's recommended that you treat links from Carpuma.com with great care.

So far, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers have found that Carpuma.com-related attacks are limited to browser redirects that use Carpuma.com as a temporary destination for click fraud. Searches from Google.com may be forced to filter through Carpuma.com before continuing to the original result, and in some cases, may simply stop at Carpuma.com without loading your intended destination at all. Although these redirect attacks have been known to strike in most types of web browsers, the related PC threats give strong indications of being specific to Windows, and haven't been configured to trigger for other search engines (such as Bing or Yahoo Search).

Relatives of Carpuma.com Redirect Attacks That May Also Be Visiting Your PC

Although redirects to Carpuma.com may, by themselves, be thought of as only mildly hazardous for your computer, Carpuma.com redirects are often just one symptom of a multifaceted attack by multiple PC threats. Related dangers that SpywareRemove.com malware research team has also noted in conjunction with Carpuma.com-promoting browser hijackers include:

  • Random system crashes that cause the well-known 'Blue Screen of Death' symptom in Windows computers.
  • Attempted blockages of your anti-malware and security applications. Some security programs may crash with error messages like the following:

    'Run-time error '5': Invalid procedure call or argument'

  • Audio output problems up to and including total loss of sound.
  • Unauthorized changes to your Windows themes settings.
  • Web searches that are censored, blocked or hijacked to prevent you from accessing security-related websites or information on how to remove a Carpuma.com-promoting browser hijacker.

SpywareRemove.com malware analysts suggest that you disable the possibility of these attacks by using Safe Mode, a direct boot to the Command Prompt or a secondary OS source (such as a removable drive). This will help you to execute suitable anti-malware program to scan your entire PC and delete Carpuma.com's browser hijacker, as well as other PC threats.

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