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Protected User Mode Audio (also known as PUMA), announced on March 15, 2005, is a media filter that protects rogue software (i.e. spyware) from "stealing" content that is on the user's computer.

History
PUMA was announced by Microsoft on March 15, 2005, along with other new file formats for Windows Longhorn, which is now known as Windows Vista.