Loanpuma.com

Loanpuma.com looks like a search engine and even includes an adorable feline mascot, we discourage trusting your search results in Loanpuma.com's paws, which have been associated with browser hijackers and similar sites that are actively-engaged in the process of distributing malicious software. Browser hijackers that promote Loanpuma.com are most likely to do so by forcing your Google results to pass through Loanpuma.com before you can arrive at your intended destination, and in some cases, these redirects may insure that you fail to reach the intended site at all. In addition to these confirmed risks, related PC threats that are capable of enabling Loanpuma.com redirects have also been noted for a variety of other aggressive functions, and it's recommended that you terminate the source of browser redirects to Loanpuma.com with an anti-malware program that you trust.

How Loanpuma.com Pays You Back for the Gift of Your Attention

Though Loanpuma.com's marketing doesn't make any mention of its partners, Loanpuma.com can be considered a direct copy of similarly-named websites that follow the same [topic]puma.com naming scheme, as well as also being promoted by browser-hijacking PC threats. Other types of 'puma' sites in this ring include Insurancepuma.com, Buffpuma.com, Creditpuma.com, Foodpuma.com, Internetpuma.com and Dietpuma.com. These sites have also been noted in connection with malicious software distribution and inserting misleading links for search results; the latter is most likely to show up when you attempt to navigate to a popular media site like YouTube. Even though the majority of links from Loanpuma.com may be safe, you should use a more reputable search engine than Loanpuma.com until its respective issues have been dealt with one way or another.

Contact with Loanpuma.com may, nonetheless, be difficult to eschew, as Loanpuma.com and its fellow sites have drawn attention for being promoted by PC threats that launch redirecting attacks against multiple types of web browsers. SpywareRemove.com malware analysts note that typical redirects that promote this family of websites, including Loanpuma.com, appear to be implementing a form of click fraud via the following steps:

• Monitoring the web browser for attempts to access Google.
• Redirecting the web browser to Loanpuma.com after you attempt to click one of Google's search results.
• Finally, redirecting the browser to the intended link (after a brief pause at Loanpuma.com). As noted earlier, this step may falter periodically and redirect you to an unrelated site instead of the desired one.

Protecting Your PC from the Claws of a Loanpuma.com Browser Hijacker

Loanpuma.com browser hijackers, although they should be removable by competent anti-malware software, have also been found to be commonly accompanied by other PC threats, including (but not limited to) Trojans, rootkits, spyware and worms. SpywareRemove.com malware researchers recommend that you scan your entire PC to be certain of finding and removing all related PC threats instead of trying to remove a Loanpuma.com-promoting browser hijacker by itself. Other issues that may raise their ugly heads while you're busy scanning your PC include:

• Attacks against your security software; these attacks can be avoided by disabling the PC threat prior to a scan, which is often done by booting into Safe Mode. Applications that fail to run because of these attacks may exhibit warning messages like the sample shown here:

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

• Blocked web searches that involve anti-malware resources, PC security or even Loanpuma.com itself.
• Periodic crashes of your operating system (BSOD or 'Blue Screens of Death').
• Disabled audio output.
• Unauthorized changes to your Windows theme.