Remove “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” pop-up scam

The This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today is a misleading web-site that designed in order to trick you into calling the fake Microsoft Tech Support Service. Most often, this misleading advertising can be loaded into the web-browser with the help of ‘ad-supported’ software (also known as adware). The ad-supported software may modify the settings of web-browsers such as Chrome, FF, MS Edge and Internet Explorer or install a malicious web browser extension which made to generate a huge number of unwanted pop up advertisements. It will lead to the fact that when you launch the browser or surf the Web, it will always be forced to open “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” scam or other annoying advertisements.

The full text of the misleading message is:

This Build of Windows Platform is Expired today
If it Expires, Your Windows Platform System will be locked or
it will be restart in every few minutes
For Immediate Support Call Windows Platform Help Desk at Toll Free:

What is more, the ad supported software that causes misleading “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” pop up warnings on your internet browser, may display ads depend on a web page that you are visiting. That is, it is clear that this adware, without your permission, steals privacy information about you such as: your ip address, what is a site you are viewing now, what you are looking for on the Internet, which links you are clicking, and much, much more. Even worse, the adware may monetize its functionality by collecting privacy data from your browsing sessions. This confidential data, afterwards, can be easily transferred to third parties. This puts your privacy information at a security risk.

The adware often alter all internet browser shortcuts which located on your Desktop to force you visit some undesired ad sites. As a result, your web browser can still redirect you to an unwanted ad web-page despite your computer is actually clean of adware and other malicious software.

Thus, it’s clear that the presence of adware on your system is not desirable, and you need to clean up your system sooner. Follow the guide below in order to remove “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” fake alerts.

How to remove “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” pop-up

In the steps below, we will try to cover the Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, MS Edge and Microsoft Internet Explorer and provide general advice to remove “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” popup warnings. You may find some minor differences in your Windows install. No matter, you should be okay if you follow the steps outlined below: remove all suspicious and unknown software, reset internet browsers settings, fix browsers shortcuts, delete harmful scheduled tasks, use free malware removal tools. Read it once, after doing so, please print this page as you may need to close your browser or restart your PC system.

To remove “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” scam, execute the following steps:

1. Remove “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” fake alerts without any utilities
   • Delete adware through the Windows Control Panel
   • Remove unwanted Scheduled Tasks
   • Remove “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” fake alerts from Google Chrome
   • Remove “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” pop-up warnings from Microsoft Internet Explorer
   • Get rid of “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” from FF by resetting web-browser settings
   • Disinfect the web browser’s shortcuts to remove “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” redirect
2. How to automatically remove “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” pop up warnings
   • How to delete “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” popup with Zemana Anti-malware
   • How to automatically remove “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” with Malwarebytes
   • If the problem with “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” popup warnings is still remained
3. Use AdBlocker to stop “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” and stay safe online
4. How can you prevent the “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” popup
5. To sum up

Remove “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” fake alerts without any utilities

The step by step tutorial will help you remove “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” pop-up warnings. These “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” removal steps work for the FF, Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge, as well as every version of Windows operating system.

Delete adware through the Windows Control Panel

First, go to Microsoft Windows Control Panel and delete suspicious apps, all programs you do not remember installing. It is important to pay the most attention to software you installed just before “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” pop up warnings appeared on your web browser. If you don’t know what a program does, look for the answer on the World Wide Web.

Windows 10, 8.1, 8

Now, click the Windows button, type “Control panel” in search and press Enter. Select “Programs and Features”, then “Uninstall a program”.

Choose the suspicious application, uninstall it.

Windows Vista, 7

Close all open web-browsers including the Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Edge. From the “Start” menu in Microsoft Windows, select “Control Panel”. Under the “Programs” icon, choose “Uninstall a program”.

Choose any unknown and suspicious applications, then press “Uninstall/Change” button to remove this unwanted program from your computer.

Windows XP

Click the “Start” button, select “Control Panel” option. Click on “Add/Remove Programs”.

Select any unknown and suspicious programs, the press “Change/Remove” button to uninstall it. Follow the prompts.

Remove unwanted Scheduled Tasks

If the annoying “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” site opens automatically on Windows startup or at equal time intervals, then you need to check the Task Scheduler Library and remove all the tasks which have been created by adware.

Press Windows and R keys on your keyboard simultaneously. It will display a prompt that titled with Run. In the text field, type “taskschd.msc” (without the quotes) and click OK. Task Scheduler window opens. In the left-hand side, press “Task Scheduler Library”, as displayed on the image below.

In the middle part you will see a list of installed tasks. Select the first task, its properties will be open just below automatically. Next, press the Actions tab. Necessary to look at the text which is written under Details. Found something such as “explorer.exe http://site.address” or “chrome.exe http://site.address” or “firefox.exe http://site.address”, then you need remove this task. If you are not sure that executes the task, then google it. If it is a component of the adware, then this task also should be removed.

Further click on it with the right mouse button and select Delete as displayed on the image below.

Repeat this step, if you have found a few tasks that have been created by unwanted software. Once is complete, close the Task Scheduler window.

Remove “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” fake alerts from Google Chrome

Use the Reset web browser tool of the Google Chrome to reset all its settings like home page, new tab and search provider by default to original defaults. This is a very useful tool to use, in the case of web-browser redirects to undesired ad sites such as “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today”.

Open the Chrome menu by clicking on the button in the form of three horizontal dotes (). It will show the drop-down menu. Choose More Tools, then click Extensions.

Carefully browse through the list of installed extensions. If the list has the extension labeled with “Installed by enterprise policy” or “Installed by your administrator”, then complete the following steps: Remove Google Chrome extensions installed by enterprise policy otherwise, just go to the step below.

Open the Chrome main menu again, click to “Settings” option.

Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the “Advanced” link. Now scroll down until the Reset settings section is visible, as shown in the following example and press the “Reset settings to their original defaults” button.

Confirm your action, press the “Reset” button.

Remove “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” pop-up warnings from Microsoft Internet Explorer

The Internet Explorer reset is great if your web-browser is hijacked or you have unwanted addo-ons or toolbars on your browser, that installed by an malicious software.

First, launch the Internet Explorer, click ) button. Next, press “Internet Options” like below.

In the “Internet Options” screen select the Advanced tab. Next, press Reset button. The Internet Explorer will show the Reset Internet Explorer settings dialog box. Select the “Delete personal settings” check box and click Reset button.

You will now need to reboot your computer for the changes to take effect. It will remove ad-supported software which causes misleading “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” pop up on your web browser, disable malicious and ad-supported web-browser’s extensions and restore the Microsoft Internet Explorer’s settings like home page, newtab page and search provider by default to default state.

Get rid of “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” from FF by resetting web-browser settings

If the FF settings like start page, newtab and default search engine have been replaced by the adware, then resetting it to the default state can help.

Press the Menu button (looks like three horizontal lines), and click the blue Help icon located at the bottom of the drop down menu as displayed below.

A small menu will appear, press the “Troubleshooting Information”. On this page, press “Refresh Firefox” button as shown on the screen below.

Follow the onscreen procedure to restore your FF internet browser settings to its original state.

Disinfect the web browser’s shortcuts to remove “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” redirect

Important to know, most anti malware applications that are able to remove ‘ad supported’ software which made to display misleading “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” pop up scam within your web browser, but unable to detect and recover altered shortcut files. So, you need to fix the desktop shortcuts for your Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox and MS Edge web browsers manually.

To clear the browser shortcut file, right-click to it and choose Properties. On the Shortcut tab, locate the Target field. Click inside, you will see a vertical line – arrow pointer, move it (using -> arrow key on your keyboard) to the right as possible. You will see a text such as “http://site.address” that has been added here. You need to delete it.

When the text is removed, click the OK button. You need to clean all shortcut files of all your web browsers, as they may be infected too.

How to automatically remove “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” pop up warnings

After completing the manual removal tutorial above all unwanted programs, malicious internet browser’s extensions and adware that causes misleading “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” fake alerts on your browser should be deleted. If the problem with “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” pop up scam is still remained, then we suggest to scan your machine for any remaining malicious components. Run recommended free adware removal software below.

How to delete “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” popup with Zemana Anti-malware

You can delete “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” pop-up warnings automatically with a help of Zemana Anti-malware. We suggest this malicious software removal tool because it may easily get rid of hijackers, PUPs, adware that redirects your web browser to “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” web site with all their components such as folders, files and registry entries.

Please go to the following link to download Zemana. Save it on your Desktop.

When the download is done, close all apps and windows on your machine. Double-click the setup file named Zemana.AntiMalware.Setup. If the “User Account Control” prompt pops up as on the image below, click the “Yes” button.

It will open the “Setup wizard” which will help you set up Zemana Anti-Malware on your personal computer. Follow the prompts and don’t make any changes to default settings.

Once installation is done successfully, Zemana Anti Malware will automatically start and you can see its main screen as displayed in the following example.

Now press the “Scan” button to perform a system scan for the adware which shows misleading “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” pop up scam on your machine. This process can take some time, so please be patient. While the Zemana AntiMalware application is scanning, you can see how many objects it has identified as threat.

After that process is finished, Zemana will display a list of detected threats. Review the scan results and then click “Next” button. The Zemana AntiMalware (ZAM) will remove ad-supported software that causes web browsers to show misleading “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” popup scam and move items to the program’s quarantine. Once disinfection is complete, you may be prompted to reboot the PC.

How to automatically remove “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” with Malwarebytes

We recommend using the Malwarebytes Free. You may download and install Malwarebytes to find out adware and thereby remove “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” popup warnings from your web browsers. When installed and updated, the free malware remover will automatically scan and detect all threats present on the PC.

Visit the page linked below to download the latest version of MalwareBytes Anti-Malware for MS Windows. Save it on your Windows desktop or in any other place.

After the download is finished, run it and follow the prompts. Once installed, the MalwareBytes Anti-Malware will try to update itself and when this process is done, press the “Scan Now” button to perform a system scan with this utility for the adware that causes misleading “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” pop up warnings on your web-browser. Depending on your machine, the scan may take anywhere from a few minutes to close to an hour. During the scan MalwareBytes Anti-Malware (MBAM) will scan for threats present on your PC. All detected items will be marked. You can delete them all by simply click “Quarantine Selected” button.

The MalwareBytes AntiMalware (MBAM) is a free program that you can use to get rid of all detected folders, files, services, registry entries and so on. To learn more about this malicious software removal utility, we suggest you to read and follow the tutorial or the video guide below.

If the problem with “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” popup warnings is still remained

AdwCleaner is a free removal utility. It removes potentially unwanted software, ad-supported software, hijackers and unwanted web browser add-ons. Video guidance available here. It’ll scan for and delete adware that cause misleading “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” fake alerts to appear. AdwCleaner uses very small PC resources and is a portable program.

Download AdwCleaner from the following link. Save it on your Desktop.

When downloading is finished, open the directory in which you saved it and double-click the AdwCleaner icon. It will launch the AdwCleaner utility and you will see a screen as displayed below. If the User Account Control prompt will ask you want to start the application, click Yes button to continue.

Next, click “Scan” to perform a system scan with this tool for the adware that cause misleading “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” pop up to appear. A system scan can take anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes, depending on your computer. While the tool is scanning, you can see number of objects and files has already scanned.

Once AdwCleaner has completed scanning your PC system, AdwCleaner will show you the results like below.

You may move threats to Quarantine (all selected by default) by simply click “Clean” button. It will show a dialog box. Click “OK” button. The AdwCleaner will get rid of adware which developed to display misleading “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” pop up warnings within your web browser. After finished, the tool may ask you to reboot your PC system. After restart, the AdwCleaner will display the log file.

All the above steps are shown in detail in the following video instructions.

Use AdBlocker to stop “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” and stay safe online

It is also critical to protect your browsers from harmful web sites and ads by using an ad blocker application such as AdGuard. Security experts says that it’ll greatly reduce the risk of malicious software, and potentially save lots of money. Additionally, the AdGuard can also protect your privacy by blocking almost all trackers.

Download AdGuard application from the following link. Save it directly to your Microsoft Windows Desktop.

When downloading is finished, launch the downloaded file. You will see the “Setup Wizard” screen like below.

Follow the prompts. When the installation is complete, you will see a window as displayed on the screen below.

You can click “Skip” to close the installation program and use the default settings, or press “Get Started” button to see an quick tutorial which will assist you get to know AdGuard better.

In most cases, the default settings are enough and you do not need to change anything. Each time, when you start your system, AdGuard will start automatically and block popup ads, web-pages such “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today”, as well as other malicious or misleading sites. For an overview of all the features of the application, or to change its settings you can simply double-click on the AdGuard icon, that can be found on your desktop.

How can you prevent the “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” popup

The ad-supported software actively distributed with freeware, along with the installer of these programs. Therefore, it is very important, when installing an unknown application even downloaded from known or big hosting site, read the Terms of use and the Software license, as well as to select the Manual, Advanced or Custom install mode. In this mode, you can disable the setup of unneeded modules and software and protect your PC from the ‘ad supported’ software that shows misleading “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” popup scam on your PC. Do not repeat the mistakes of most users when installing unknown programs, simply click the Next button, and don’t read any information that the free software open them during its install. Most commonly this leads to one – the internet browser begins showing a ton of unwanted advertisements.

To sum up

Now your PC system should be clean of the adware that causes multiple misleading “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” alerts and pop-ups. Remove AdwCleaner. We suggest that you keep AdGuard (to help you stop unwanted popups and undesired malicious sites) and Zemana Free (to periodically scan your computer for new ad-supported softwares and other malicious software). Probably you are running an older version of Java or Adobe Flash Player. This can be a security risk, so download and install the latest version right now.

If you are still having problems while trying to delete “This Build of Windows Platform is Expired Today” popup warnings from the Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Edge, then ask for help in our Spyware/Malware removal forum.