Major Windows BSOD issue takes banks, airlines, and broadcasters offline
https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/19/24201717/windows-bsod-crowdstrike-outage-issue
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Note: Contrary to claims of a "global internet outage", network data show minimal impact to connectivity and telecoms infrastructure after a threat-detection software update causes crashes on some Windows PCs; the software issue is attributed to flaws in a Crowdstrike product
-- Netblocks
In case you don't wanna go to x for the #Crowdstrike workaround
There is a workaround...
1. Boot Windows into Safe Mode or WRE.
2. Go to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike
3. Locate and delete file matching "C-00000291*.sys"
4. Boot normally.
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Happy Friday
the Verge reports that for machines that aren't automatically receiving Crowdstrike's newly-released software fix, Microsoft has released a recovery tool that creates a bootable USB drive.
Some IT admins have reported rebooting PCs multiple times will get the necessary update, but for others the only route is having to manually boot into Safe Mode and deleting the problematic CrowdStrike update file. Microsoft's recovery tool now makes this recovery process less manual, by booting into its Windows PE environment via USB, accessing the disk of the affected machine, and automatically deleting the problematic CrowdStrike file to allow the machine to boot properly.