[username223]

Hm, let's take a look at Vosteran. From Wikipedia[1]: "Vosteran is a browser hijacker that changes a browser's home page and default search provider to vosteran.com. This infection is essentially distributed bundled with other third-party applications. Vosteran carries the PUP virus. The identity of Vosteran is protected by privacyprotect.org from Australia."

Okay, so it's malware. Let's check out their webpage[2]! Hm, they give a physical address at 28 Lilienbulm St. in Tel Aviv... as an image, to avoid search engines. Let's look at their "how-to-get-rid-of-this-crap-I-don't-want" process[3], which "shouldn't take more than 10 minutes": so they basically put their tentacles into any crevice they can find, and make it annoying to pry them out.

Let's see if it's easy to see who runs this bit of evil... nope. They're amoral scum.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_hijacking#Vosteran

[2] http://www.vosteransearch.com/contact-us/

[3] http://www.vosteransearch.com/how-to-remove/

[ocdtrekkie]

And Google has received reports for it, but clearly thinks there's nothing wrong with it being there.