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Buffpuma.com is a website that is linked to malware. The Buffpuma.com website itself is not particularly useful, and even appears to be unfinished. Various computer users have reported a malware infection that forces them to visit Buffpuma.com and its clones (Creditpuma.com or LoanPuma.com) repeatedly. There's a link between the Buffpuma.com group of malicious websites and a JavaScript Trojan which affects browsing from within the infected web browser, unlike other browser hijackers that require the entire operating system to be infected with a multi-component malware infection. The particular characteristics of the Buffpuma.com-related browser hijacker means that it can infect other operating systems apart from Windows and, in fact, there has been reports of iPads and other devises using iOS experiencing browser redirects to the Buffpuma.com website. This is an important development in PC security research since computer users with these kinds of devices represent a large number of potential infections that have largely been immune to previous browser hijackers.

How Buffpuma.com-Related Malware Takes Over Your Web Browser

Currently, there are no dangerous components within Buffpuma.com itself. The malware infection that forces victims to visit Buffpuma.com is not present at Buffpuma.com itself but at various websites that may have been hacked so as to infect visitors with this browser hijacker. Infected computer systems will present symptoms similar to those of the Google Redirect Virus, a Trojan infection that will usually change the results of the victim's online search so that they direct to Buffpuma.com instead of to their corresponding websites. Browser hijackers associated with Buffpuma.com also have the capacity to direct the victim's traffic through this website without the victim's knowledge. This can be seen in the web browser's lower bar, which will show the Buffpuma.com URL before connecting to other websites. This will often result in greatly increased loading times and a perceived slowing down of the victim's Internet connection. Fortunately, the fact that Buffpuma.com-related malware is not systemic often means that symptoms can be halted by disabling JavaScript while a reliable security program is used to detect and remove the problem. Computer users on iPads and other non-Windows devices may have a harder time removing Buffpuma.com redirects, and a complete reinstall of the device's operating system may be necessary for extreme cases.