Google offers a wide range of tools to web developers to help them create and maintain their tools and services. storage.googleapis.com is one of these tools.
storage.googleapis.com is the service where Google Cloud Storage is hosted. You can read more about this Google service at cloud.google.com/storage. This service was created to provide a place where developers can save files to be downloaded afterwards. Google Cloud Service was never meant to be a websites hosting service, but only a downloading service. However, in some cases (you are probably experiencing this sort of issue) your browser might be attempting to download a website code from storage.googleapis.com showing it as a website per se. Malicious developers have been misusing this service to host their malicious websites or adware. That’s why storage.googleapis.com has been linked to malicious activity when in fact the problem is that mischievous people are taking advantage of this service.
To remove any suspicious or malicious call on storage.googleapis.com you must thoroughly clean your computer. To do this without the help of a proper tool is almost an impossible mission, you can of course roll back your computer to a previous state or go as far as re-installing your Windows system all together because of the lack of options. Or you can use the tools we recommend in our guide shown below, all tools are completely free and rated as the best out there.
How to remove storage.googleapis.com ?
Remove storage.googleapis.com with MalwareBytes Anti-Malware
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is a light-weight anti-malware program that is excellent at removing the latest detections.
- Download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware to your desktop.
Premium Version Free Version (without Real-time protection) - Install MalwareBytes Anti-Malware using the installation wizard.
- Once installed, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will automatically start and you will see a message stating that you should update the program, and that a scan has never been run on your system. To start a system scan you can click on the Fix Now button.
- If an update is found, you will be prompted to download and install the latest version.
- Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will now start scanning your computer for storage.googleapis.com.
- When the scan is complete, make sure that everything is set to Quarantine, and click Apply Actions.
- When removing the files, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware may require a reboot in order to remove some of them. If it displays a message stating that it needs to reboot your computer, please allow it to do so.
Remove storage.googleapis.com with AdwCleaner
The AdwCleaner program will scan your system and web browser for storage.googleapis.com, browser extensions and registry keys, that may have been put in your system without your consent.
- You can download AdwCleaner utility from the below button :
Download AdwCleaner - Before starting AdwCleaner, close all open programs and internet browsers, then double-click on the file AdwCleaner.exe.
- If Windows prompts you as to whether or not you wish to run AdwCleaner, please allow it to run.
- When the AdwCleaner program will open, click on the Scan button.
- To remove malicious files that were detected in the previous step, please click on the Clean button.
- Please click on the OK button to allow AdwCleaner reboot your computer.
Remove storage.googleapis.com with ZHPCleaner
ZHPCleaner is a program that searches for and deletes Adware, Toolbars, Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUP), and browser Hijackers from your computer. By using ZHPCleaner you can easily remove many of these types of programs for a better user experience on your computer and while browsing the web.
- If Avast is installed on you computer you have to disable it during the process.
- You can download AdwCleaner utility from the below button :
Download ZHPCleaner - Select ZHPCleaner.exe with right mouse click and Run as Administrator.
- Accept the user agreement.
- Click on the Scanner button.
- After the scan has finished, click on the Repair button.
- Reboot your computer.
Remove storage.googleapis.com with HitmanPro
HitmanPro is an anti-virus program that describes itself as a second opinion scanner that should be used in conjunction with another anti-virus program that you may already have installed.
- You can download HitmanPro from the below link:
Download HitmanPro - Double-click on the file named HitmanPro.exe (for 32-bit versions of Windows) or HitmanPro_x64.exe (for 64-bit versions of Windows).
- Click on the Next button, to install HitmanPro on your computer.
- HitmanPro will now begin to scan your computer for storage.googleapis.com malicious files.
- When it has finished it will display a list of all the malware that the program found as shown in the image below. Click on the Next button, to remove storage.googleapis.com virus.
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