How can I delete/get rid of the Vosteran.com browser?

Vosteran.com is one of many browser hijackers roaming the great “World Wide Web” for computers to infect.  You may have noticed recently that your home page on your browser has changed.  Vosteran.com is a malware that was installed on your computer most likely right after you downloaded a program that was free. 

Well as you heard before, nothing is free.  Did Vosteran.com get permission from you to “hijack” your computer?  Most likely you did not choose NOT to have Vosteran.com installed on your computer.  (you may want to read that sentence again).  You were most likely given the opportunity to “opt out” of installing Vosteran.com…and you did not check the box.  Now this is not entirely your fault.  The creators of Vosteran.com were hoping that you didn’t read the fine print and just click “Install Now”.

The Valsteron.com malware was specifically designed to hijack the most popular web browsers like, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox and others.  This hijacker will change your browser settings; install “add-ons” or extensions so that you are redirected to Valsteron.com every time you open your web browser.  Not only will your homepage be changed, but your search results will defer or redirect you to their results of customers that have paid for a certain type of traffic.  The searches will also have links that are created to collect sales leads and increase web traffic.  All this in turn increases advertising dollars for the owners of Vosteran.com and other hijacking browsers.

Some browser hijackers go as far as adding bookmarks to pornography web sites and other sites that you will most likely not want. And that’s not to mention the adware and spyware advertisement pop-up ads that will commence.   All this will be followed by ad banners, and all those pesky coupons.  All this was installed for you from downloading “Free” software.  So needless to say, this malware program MUST be removed. 

How to remove the Vosteran.com malware from your Windows computer?

The following are ways that you can remove this detected malware infection from your computer, and to secure your computer from further threats.  Here you can download a program to do it automatically.  Or you can manually remove the threat yourself. 

• Use Automatic Removal Tool – Helpful in removing the infection completely and quickly right now.
• Removing threat from Control Panel – Infection needs to be uninstalled from control panel and its associated files deleted as well.
• Manually Removing Browser Add-ons – Unwanted Add-ons and extensions added to different browser – IE, Chrome, Mozilla needs to be removed.

#1 : Manually uninstall Vosteran.com malware program from your computer.

Follow these steps to start removing Vosteran.com for your computer. 

Click on Start button –> click on Control Panel –> click on Add & Remove program or uninstall a program. A window will open up with a list of all installed programs on your computer.
(if you are using windows 8, then Right-click on a bottom left hot corner (Normally known as a Start button) –> Control Panel –> click on Uninstall a Program).

• Uninstall Vosteran.com program. (If Vosteran.com won’t uninstall itself then use FixRedirect Uninstall Tool to remove it.)
• (If you don’t see Vosteran.com into installed program list then uninstall all other unwanted programs, may be it has installed with another name.)
• Uninstall all unwanted programs which have be installed recently (you can short all them by the date using clicking on date column on uninstall page).  Here is a list of possible suspicious programs that may have been installed onto your computer.  Remove these immediately if they appear on your list.

DownloadTerms 1.0, LyricsGet, BrowseToSave, TidyNetwork.com, SuperLyrics, WebCake 3.0.

# 2 : Remove Vosteran.com browser hijacker from Internet Explorer, Firefox and Google Chrome (Manually).

Internet Explorer

Remove Vosteran.com homepage from Internet Explorer.

• Open Internet Explorer.
• Click on Tools menu on menu bar (Press F10 key to activate menu bar).
• Click on Internet Options.
• A Internet options window will come up, click on General Tab. Under General tab you’ll get a homepage box.
• Now change your home page as your want. (www.google.com).

Reset Internet Explorer (Restore to default setting)

• Open Internet Explorer.
• Click on Tools menu on menu bar (Press F10 key to if you don’t see a menu bar).
• Click on Internet Options.
• An Internet options window will come up, then click on the Advanced Tab.
• Click on the Reset Button under the advance tab.
• A confirmation window will come up, here Check mark the box “Delete Personal Settings”, then click on the Reset button on it.

Mozilla Firefox

Remove Vosteran.com homepage from Mozilla Firefox

• Open Firefox browser.
• Click on Tools menu (Press F10 key once to activate the menu bar)
• Click on “Options”
• You’ll get a window. Here change homepage URL.

Remove Vosteran.com addons from Mozilla Firefox

• Open Firefox browser.
• Click on Tools menu (Press F10 key once to activate the menu bar)
• Click on “Addons”
• You’ll get a window which has listed all installed addons, Remove / Disable Vosteran.com add-ons.  Also remove all the unwanted add-ons that you see.

Reset Mozilla Firefox (Restore to default setting)

• Open Firefox browser.
• Click on Help menu (Press F10 key once to activate the menu bar)
• Click on “Troubleshooting Information”
• You’ll get a window, Click on Reset Firefox button and follow their on-screen instructions.

Google Chrome

Remove Vosteran.com homepage from Google Chrome

• Open Google Chrome, click on menu icon which is located right side top of the Google chrome.
• Click on Settings –> click on “Set Pages”, remove all other pages and make a new startup page www.google.com.

Remove Vosteran.com extension from Google Chrome

• Open Google Chrome, click on menu icon which is located right side top of the Google chrome.
• Click on Tools –> Extension, you will get a window which have listed all the installed Addons / Extension.
• Select Vosteran.com extension and click on their recycle bin icon to remove it completely from Google chrome. Also remove all the unwanted extensions from there.

Reset Google Chrome (Restore to default setting)

• Close the entire Google Chrome window.
• Open Google Chrome, click on menu icon and then click on settings (Note: menu icon is located on the right side- top corner)
• Scroll down and click on “Show advanced settings” You’ll get more option expend on the bottom of the page. (Note:  “Show advanced settings…” is located bottom of the setting page.)
• Now scroll down this setting page and click on “Reset Browser setting” button
• That’s it
• Now your Google Chrome has been restored back to factory default settings.

# 3 : Remove Vosteran.com infection from “Windows Shortcuts” (Manually).

• Right click on the icon of Internet Explorer on desktop then select Properties option, you’ll get a small window, In that window, look on the target field, if you found “Vosteran.com” string in this target field, please remove all the string related to Vosteran.com.
  (You may leave that step, if you don’t see this type of infection.)
• Repeat the same step with all the shortcuts of browsers (Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Safari) and from all the locations under Start menu/Taskbar/Desktop etc.

# 4 : Remove Vosteran.com malicious program from “Registry” (Manually).

• Press Windows key + R key together on your keyboard, this will bring up a RUN box, Type “Regedit” on this RUN box and then click on OK button or hit enter key on your keyboard. You’ll get open a Registry Editor window.
• Before modifying registry, we have to make a backup of whole registry.  Click on computer icon on the top of Registry Editor, then click on File menu and then click on Export, then save that registry backup file with any name.
• Click on Edit menu and then click on Find, you’ll get a find box to find any string in registry.
• Type Vosteran.com into find box, and click on Find Next button. if it found any entry with the name of Vosteran.com in result, so please replace all them to Google, or you may remove them if you found suspicious.

# 5 : Remove Vosteran.com suspicious entries from “Computer Start-up” (Manually).

• Press Windows key + R key together on your keyboard, you’ll get a RUN box, and type MSCONFIG into this RUN box and then click on OK button or hit enter key on your keyboard. You’ll get open a System Configuration window.
• Click on Services Tab and un-check all the Vosteran.com entries.
• Click on Startup Tab and un-check all the Vosteran.com entries.
• Then click on apply and then click on OK.

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