Crowdstrike Windows Update Causes Major Computer Outages Worldwide
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- Crowdstrike Windows Update Causes Major Computer Outages Worldwide
Microsoft PCs users caught in 'Blue Screen of Death' crash loop after update from third party software platform," Microsoft said in a statement this morning. "We anticipate a resolution is forthcoming." Windows devices are effected due to an update from Crowdstrike.
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CrowdStrike code update bricking Windows machines around the world
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Workaround: Delete faulty channel file. 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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#technews #crowdstrike #windows11 #windows10 #bsod
CrowdStrike are saying that Microsoft security isn't reliable and this issue shows that CrowdStrike security isn't reliable.
I know right, this will cause major problems for weeks
@@Britec09 yup. my work is severely disrupted this morning. bunches of platforms are down. next week is going to suck
I fixed it by installing Linux
Microsoft is VERY reliable, to be useless and dangerous.
Why does ANYONE trust ANYTHING tied to Bill Gates? He's effing EVIL. We KNOW how he got Windows to dominate the market.
@@MarquisDeSangLinux is great, i been using is for over 2 years. I used to be a windows user until i got tired of waiting 10 minutes for my laptop to load to desktop. The windows fanboys will say Linux cant do this or that etc, but it is still leaps and bounds more stable and reliable than windows.
And they want us to go digital money...
I know, they don't take cash anywhere. Cash is KING
@@Britec09 Gold or silver is king!
Yep Australia was only in the tech news the other day gloating how little cash is now used in Oz. Today they are finding cash is the only way to pay.
@AETMGH No, cash is king. Save your commodities for the pawn shop.
Bitcoin and Ethereum has 100% uptime record since 2014!! That's real digital money
Well, now we'll see how many admins actually bothered to keep the Bitlocker key.
We did! We have a Bitlocker tab in AD with every key for every computer :)
Why? Reboot in Safe mode an delete C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike\C-00000291*.sys
@@webdbase bitlocker is just another step, it has nothing to do with crowdstrike
@@jasonsnell708 As you should, very nice.
The Y2K bug could only dream of this 'accomplishment'
That's because we knew it was coming and did something about it. There were still issues, but a couple years of hard work prevented an issue that would have made this look like WOW went offline for five minutes.
lol, where were the Best Buy Y2K stickers for this one.
Very true. I worked on Y2K fixes for 2 years. We knew where and how to fix it. No issues after 2000 and then everyone thought it was a hoax. If we did our job properly then nothing would happen. Not a very sexy thing to do but vital.
@@drewnewby I remember, I had a second job at that time working in the tech dept at an office max. They gave me the customer phone call as they weren't sure what he needed. He was asking for a new Motherboard as his didn't do more than 2 digits for date. We sold add in cards for that problem, but I had to explain about aic boot bios's for him to understand how that could even work. So he saved a lot of hassle and money. bioses
@@RobNelson-vu8nri
I see that a lot, where people say Y2K was a hoax, but I remember reading about how all these tech dudes worked hard on it so ty for doing that.
There is no way out of this for Crowdstrike, they will go bankrupt with lawsuits going on for years and years to come.
And the neverending death cycle continues
It will re-emerge under a different name
It's too big to fail and is owned by BlackRock, after this ruckus subsides all they will get is a slap on the wrist.
Microsoft was like - "few... finally not us DIRECTLY responsible... at least for a day the lime lights will be on Crowdstrike, not our shitty behavior toward customers"
MS does the updates. See how they passed off the blame for mistakes.
@@fritzbang4805 and it was them that used the company
This is why I have disabled automatic updates on my Windows PC's. No one tests things any longer and this is the result. I will update when I want, not when Microsoft thinks it's best!
You cant stop cs updates. Hahahaga
@@VaracolacidVesci Don't use Windows. Problem solved.
@@timradde4328 yeah you could also not use internet
That’s pretty much standard procedure for savvy home users. Enterprise PCs are never under the control of their actual users. Instead, the enterprise dictates how they deal with updates.
Chris Titus TH-cam Channel and Website will show you how to disable automatic updates
Never heard of Crowd Strike until today 🤷♂️
they put out something else 😂 corona is out 😬😂
The world will learn, "if it aint broke, don't fix it"
Updates are not your friend
Россия уже научилась наша система работает на Linux.
disabling society has never been so easy...
This is why we need to have offline systems to atleast still be able to do something just in case. It may be less efficient but it's better than grinding to a halt and losing millions an hour.
We need better security than this, cybercriminals could easy brings the world down.
I still have my trusty Windows XP machine that I boot up regularly. Because it never gets any more Windows updates, it's utterly reliable. I even treated it to a brand new hard drive for Drive C a few months ago.
В России всё нормально работает у нас нету windows у нас linux санкции работают на пользу.
@@papak5558 But I tried to like Linux, I really did. I've installed numerous distros, and indeed Linux has got a lot more user-friendly over the past 10 years. But it's still quirky and weird in comparison with Windows. It's like a kit car built in someone's garage from bits. It works, but ooh, what a creation! Mary Shelley would be agog.
@@papak5558 No good laptop vendors gives laptop without windows, a decade back we used to get laptop with no OS, but now there is monopoly of windows in India.
I'm an old fart who knows just enough tech that I can REALLY screw up MY computer, and I was wondering; why, (if you're a big, important industry, like an airline/s), why wouldn't you have, like, a "dummy" system that gets the updates first and emulates the main system, so you can save the day, instead of pooping your pants. Sorry about the 'run on' sentence. That's just how it comes out, sometimes.
@oneammonday Before CrowdStrike rolls out an update it should be tested in virtual environments, etc., but you know that requires work and money spent. Completely unacceptable for profit margins it would seem.
Very good question. Responsible enterprises will have a robust IT “change” process that may take days or even weeks to get through. But this kind of update involves cyberthreat protection which needs to be done NOW. These kinds of changes (updates) are likely automated.
@robertbutsch1802 Release management doesn't always take days or weeks. Often, it can be done in minutes. Even automated updates are to be vetted. Not a good excuse for this situation.
Crowdstrike pushed the update. Customers typically do not control updates like this.
I expect Crowdstrike did test the update, as it does not affect every system they did not find the problem before pushing out the update. I hope they can identify a flaw in their testing, but the universe of windows systems is incredibly diverse and it is literally impossible to test every variant. Given the widespread nature of this problem, I expect they will be able to identify additional testing to be performed before future deployments.
Because this is deliberate to get people to accept "the solution" ,, computers and laptops were so much more robust 10 or so years ago,, I bought a laptop in 2006 that was already 3 years old and it was still going in 2012 when i wanted "an upgrade " ,, now i buy a brand new one i absolutely dread doing updates because any update can absolutely fook your hardware up and knackers your computer within 3 to 6 months. Laptops barely last a year now before they slow down and get cluttered with none stop "updates" from the Internet and Microsoft or Linux.
While I personally would not recommend crowdstrike to anyone (after having experienced massive issues with it in the past), it must be said, that while the root-cause of the problem was crowdstrikes faulty sw-update, the massive outages worldwide are also the responsibility of the IT-departments of the large companies that experience these outages. Many years ago, those comanies would not take an update and install it on all their systems directly. Rather than that, this update would have been tested on a number of systems that are representative to the installed base (in that company) before this update could be copied into the companies own update servers.
With that, this faulty update had bricked some testsystems and had then never seen the companies update servers and had never been installed on any important productive system. But, 'cut-down-cost-is-king' ... most companies do not do it the oldfashioned way anymore.
At least, for all companies that have experienced outages now, you really can tell, how careless they are.
Касперским нужно пользоваться.
The truth hurts right in the wallet your comment is spot on It’s called a Development system but when we go to the cloud the Developer environment went to heaven.
Thank you so much, Britec. Here in North Carolina in the US, there's been all kinds of disruptions from airlines to hospitals. These companies should be held accountable for causing such chaos around the world.
Should only effect business users who use this security software and not home users but quick response. I had a feeling this was going to be a video you would do today
Thank you so much. That's reassuring because I was getting very nervous about my home OS crashing.
@@soulaesthete8563 it's only systems with the crowdstrike security software that's affected
I’m stuck in Detroit all delta screens blue !
wow, not good.
Good God...not Detroit...
I must say, I never heard of this Crowdstrike company before. But the moment I got corporate communications informing us that our systems our down due to Crowdstrike, I remembered...Lewis Hamilton's helmet!
Yeah, he is a bit of a helmet
@@busybillyb33 Any mention of CrowdStrike sponsorship was probably removed near instantaneously.
@@steve10 Why the idiot comment? Does this advance your station in life? I’d ask why you say that about him, but people who say such stupid things have no idea why they do it.
Worse than what was expected with Y2K
I’m sure they outsource the update work to a DEI company in the USA!
Looks like Liz Truss' first day at her new job at Microsoft did now go too well.
This is exactly why forced software updates should be illegal
BSOD caused by anti-virus kernel driver and windows just says "critical process died" instead of saying name of the driver file like on the anti-cheat programs.
What a helpful error message from an amazing OS.
There's nothing new about that as far as Windows is concerned.
I have never seen a home user use Crowdstrike. It is only/mostly used in business environments.
It's almost exclusively a business program. It's designed for large systems which need good security. Home users are fine with Windows Defender and other anti-virus programs.
No CrowdStrike folders or files on my systems. Thank you Brian.
It's mostly commercial users.
cash only at pubs. .when we go cashless it will be chaotic
One mistake has brought the world to its knees.
We won't. Cash is reliable, so it has to exist. Governments want cashless for monitoring and control. We can't let that happen.
Not if you use bitcoin ! Bitcoin don’t have this problem
@@tiberiud1955But it is not backed by anything. Lose your account you are buggered.
@@tiberiud1955 No, thanks. To me that's not a trustable currency.
Welldone Bri, On the ball as always, I will echo the sentiments of other posters, DO NOT GO DIGITAL CURRENCY , That is a recipe for disaster, and yes CASH IS KING
The problem is caused by an bad update to the CrowdStrike Falcon anti-malware system. If you're only running Windows Defender (common in home setups), you shouldn't see the problem.
Thank you! 👍
Ahhh that's OK then , I dont bother with anti virus, I only use windows defender
Ah, maybe that's why I didn't experience a problem on my Windows 10 PC. I only use Windows Defender. Never heard of CrowdStrike until today. I'll bet that company wishes now it had come up with a better name than "CrowdStrike".
Well actually you'll still might experience BSOD just not because of CloudStrike.
@@haroldcruz8550 oh I know , I changed something in the bios , then the pc froze , went back into the bios and it froze on the bios , that was it , next time I turned it on it blue screened of death.
Just by chance I thought that because it happened when I changed something onthe bios I could remove CMOS and see , and luckily resetting the bios helped , apart from sorting out memory speed I won't go messing with that again.
The troubles is Microsoft fired so many people at testing dept and they push updates to our computers and test them on our machines through telemetry. That's how they got to save money.
This Linux fanboy is indeed happy to not be affected, but since many of my clients are it is still not fun.
With decades of quality control software engineering experience, absolutely 100% preventable.
CrowdStrike and Microsoft have a lot of explaining to do and the financial impacts are in the billions, lawsuits are likely already in the works.
This stunt has cost the world billions
Watch the lawsuits begin...!!
It will teach them employ people based on ability.
Yes, sure, just another $200. year subscription......lol
@@bushmonster1702 but muh DEI
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Were in the middle of summer holiday period n everyones off on vacaition. Give it up for Britec for being a stand up guy to give this up to date info this fast about this current issue. My hats off to you sir! 🏆
With the amount of ads Microsoft is making us see despite purchasing their licence, it won't be long when it becomes obsolete with the coming age of decentralisation.
Where are these ads? I still haven't seen them.
Indeed, purchased a licence, having ads on login screen, edge, crap in start menu, advertisement ID on a setup... Besides I think that MS now makes the most out of subscriptions, not OS licenses, and maybe even in those subs are ads? Not having it! The only way forward for me is Linux Linux Linux.
@@emptywig You're the OG, it seems…
@@D.von.N I think removing telemetry from your system would help.
It did help in my case, there are barely any ads now.
Never heard of Crowdstrike
I saw that screen the other night at the hospital. Poor nurse couldn’t get info for my friends medications. It was only a minor stroke, no big deal.
I use Linux Mint It's really good .Haven't used Windows 10 or 11 for months
major/critical industries like banking, airports, trains, etc. should stop using M$ Windows & use Linux.
Thank you, Brian. I read about this issue early this morning and THEN I had to phone my bank a few hours later, but I was unable to get through: _("We're sorry; we're unable to take your call right now. Please try again later.")_ ... and I immediately knew the reason why. 🙄
This morning the Washington, DC subway called Metro experience problems this morning and trains started late. Also, the DC TV station NBC4 also had several PCs down. Many are still using WIndows 10 meaning they have not upgraded to Windows 11 yet
The world has been brought into chaos
So many people blaming Microsoft and Windows, very few people even mention Crowdstrike being the problem. i knew you would have this video at some point today, well done.
It is a crowdstrike issue, a update from them for there software caused the issue and creating BSOD reboot loop
No hint of an apology from Crowdstrike? They must realise that the ongoing lawsuits from this will bankrupt the company so why not go out with some honesty and integrity.
@@peterfoote5342 In the world of global corporates, an apology is an admission of guilt. Today’s lingua frança is to lie, lie, lie. Apologies would upset that.
@@artysanmobile I believe it is called 'deflection', and they are likely working, harder this time, on damage control...and who they can blame.
But you are speaking the mantra of corporate ideology!
All your eggs in one basket (or two baskets; Crowdstrike together with Microsoft) in this instance, comes to mind. This is one Linux "fanboy" not particularly laughing. No one should be complacent about this sort of thing.
Such a simple mistake brings computers around the world down. Not such an easy fix
I remember a similar outage that caused Loius Rossman to have issues with connectivity for his business. Might have been AWS? Anyway he had used 2 different providers to safe guard against total loss but unfortunately both providers used the same back end.
Last night their was an outage with Microsoft 365
Its a worldwide issue
Their was an outage? Don't you mean there was an outage. It's no wonder we have software bugs.
@@yootubeisok oops. I used the wrong there/their.
@@davinp It's fine, no one noticed. After all, we are computer nerds not English majors! LOL
@@davinpI suppose that's what happens when your cloud spellchecker is down.
Beta-testing & getting ready to rig November 5th…
I've been refusing to put the update through for some weird reason, I think my gut has been looking out for me.
What is incredible is that this bug for past testing and was released world wide. Poor show.
What testing? It sure seems that most if not all software these days is just thrown out to the users with no testing. I hesitate to allow any of my computers or connected devices to auto update thanks to all the problems I have had fixing the messes bad updates have created.
Many TV & Radio stations are off the air here. I seen this BSOD on Windows 11 PC's not Windows 10 yet. I fixed my laptop by going into recovery mode & did a system restore back to last point & its fixed. I did not install any updates after I did this.
What are you saying here? You use Crowdstrike?
Crowdstrike shares down 14% atm 14:30 BST.
I wonder why 😂
Is that all?
"The outage stemmed from a recent update to CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor software, according to Microsoft, which affected Windows 365 Cloud PCs. Microsoft is urging customers affected to conduct point-in-time restore for Windows 365 Business and Enterprise." So it sounds like most home users are not affected.
P.S. This is a perfect example of why cloud-based software is not always a good idea.
I wouldn't touch the cloud with a bargepole. I'm trying to remove or disable all the intrusive Microsoft spyware and phone home crap, but it's a mammoth task. Britec has shown us the way in a number of videos, and I have a feeling they're going to be called upon to release further videos over the next few weeks. What we need is a minimally invasive installation.
Would I use security software from a company so incompetent that it doesnt check its upgrades before global roll out? I think not. It hardly takes long to test; computers worldwide fell over after the midnight release. I would say their company is finished; regardless of the law suits they are facing.
I mean how difficult is it to test the update on a couple of PCs before rolling it out across the planet
Typical software company. Make changes, turn them loose on the customers with no testing first, and those changes break or otherwise mess up the customer's computers or other devices. It seems we have an abundance of not very good software "engineers" these days, working for a management group that allows sloppy work and no quality control. You have to love the idea that CrowdStrike promotes it's business as the best way to protect your business. Sure thing, guys. I hope a whole lot of business's sue the you-know-what out of them.
Not "no testing", but insufficient testing. Not necessarily an abundance of bad software engineers, but perhaps a QA/testing failure.
Typical company, bringing down cost takes priority over their customers.
Crowdstrike earned their name today. Why does anyone run this crapware?
I wondered why when I went to the movies yesterday and on the way out I noticed a lot of their display screens with the Blue recovery (too many restarts) screen showing. Now I know.
I would love to blame Microsoft for this, they have made some really crappy things but you can’ release a product that’ suppose to cover where MS fails in security and then blame MS for failing in security. They have saved money on testing when they should know that testing is essential. Linux/Mac fan boy here, on MS side.
I heard you can't get into safe mode when you've got Bitlocker enabled, which Microsoft recently announced will be enabled by default. I hope regular non-technical users have stored their encryption keys somewhere and know how to use them!
See to me, this is just a day in the life of Windows as usual. Who is surprised by the fact that this operating system is a dumpster fire?
I use windows as well as Linux. But antivirus software such as Norton and McAfee and crowdstrike is a scam. Lock windows down more than out of the box and you'll be fine. This crowdstrike crapware is mostly enterprise business antivirus not generally for home users. Ironically it's worse than any malware it probably wouldn't have detected in the first place.
Installing windows 3.11 for worgroups back on our machines just now, back to old faithful 😅
Haha
No contactless payments at B & Q
Wow, its going to take weeks to fix
So now it's Saturday after the worst global IT outage in history and many are saying it could take weeks for every system to be restored to normal working. We are hearing on the news that some end of the month payroll systems may not be able to pay salaries, with the knock-on effect of lots of workers going into default on things like rent, car payments, and mortgage payments.
So then i thought, whenever I am notified by a piece of trusted software that an update is available, the first thing I do is create a restore point. I haven't checked, but my Windows 10 PC probably has accumulated many restore points by now. Thankfully, I've never needed to use a restore point to reverse an update. Could it not be made the default, certainly for business computers, to insist on a restore point being created _before_ any update is made? If every affected PC yesterday had had a salient restore point available, maybe the glitch wouldn't have had so many repercussions.
I don't think business client end users won't even have access to advanced options and most of them needs to send back the devices or full reset.
Of course endpoint security is sometimes cumbersome and inconvenience
I had been waiting for your video. Thank you for input. My question, is cloud infrastructure is safe?
the most surprising fact following from all the news is that a lot of critical infrastructure relies on M$ products. So they were doomed for a success like this )
PS in India eg only airports were reported subjected to this failure, France was not hit that hard cause these countries don't rely much on M$ products in government and critical infrastructure, similar for China, Russia, and other states, you name it )
And well not only linux, and not only fanboys, may celebrate this event ) many bad people may consider this as an opportunity. And also any unix, BSD, apple, android, whatever competitors on the market are, and of course direct competitors like AV and IT security companies may be happy to use this opportunity )
I have always been suspicious of automatic system updates. Where I have the choice I have always avoided that option.
Never a dull day Brian and it always amazes me to find out about companies that seem to breed like rabbits and one never even knows they exist. I have never heard of Crowdstrike and well if it is their input is important to the Microsoft Windows software surely Microsoft has a duty to first make it fail-safe seeing what chaos breakdowns in that particular part of their software can do to whoever is using Windows as their operating system. Plus I gather it was attributed to an update of some sort but I stand to be corrected on that something that you have warned us about many times in the past.
Nothing is so important that EVERY CLIENT needs to update as soon as possible, let alone all of them, at the same time... nothing...
Gotta love technology, the DARK AGES in the blink of an eye. NO CASH!!! NO MERCHANDISE!!!!
Now Earth's magnetosphere is weak, and becoming more so daily, due to the 1859 Carrington Event, we can expect spaceweather from our star, the Sun, to impact our biosphere and cause very pretty low-latitude aurorae and worldwide grid outages that will not be so readily fixed but instead will send us back to the Stone-Age. No amount of legal cases will help, either.
Those solar flares coming off the sun are getting more and more deadly to earth each time.
@@lamontjames8156 it is not so much the strength of the solar flares that count, rather its the vulnerability of Earth because of the weakened magnetosphere which would otherwise deflect the incoming spaceweather...
So, when you do a security update, why wouldn't a company run a test run on a room full of the different operating systems they protect that are isolated from the internet to make sure there are no problems with the update before sending the update out. Might save a lot of problems.
Great explanation on fix. Thanks. I am wondering can network administrators apply this fix remotely all at once for all machines in their network, or do they have to apply fix one workstation at a time?
We knew all of this at 09.00 this morning. Why would we buy Windows BTW? This is the best advert for Linux that you could have. Also the best add not to adopt CBDC.
Y'all the average user doesn't use crowdstrike, so chances are everybody is okay, but a lot of critical infrastructure uses crowdstrike.
That being said, I know this is mainly an issue with Crowdstrike, but could Microsoft partially hold some degree of blame? Because most Linux and Mac systems are unaffected by this and Microsoft, I would think would have some say in releasing an update.
The question I have is, How did this even get out to the cooperate World without some sort of Quality check are they rushing these updates for security reasons are they no Test Benches to run the Update before it goes public, Help me Understand Thanks Brian for your help I'm sure you save a few hundred headaches P.S. In my opinion this is what separates the actual I.T. guys and the coders writing code and not testing it, More collaboration with real world scenario should be in place.
"Oh I can't take your order because our computers are down."...??? Get out a pencil and some paper and write the damn order down with your hand, or have you forgotten how to fucking write?" We depend too much on computers without any back-up plans.
@@capnmikes 100%
Hospitals do have a manual system to use (which they used), although it's slower and limits their capacity. It was probably designed for times of emergency where they didn't have power.
Everyone builds 'houses of cards' ... as soon as one little thing goes wrong the whole thing collapses in a heap. Every single thing is just going to work perfectly 100% of the time isn't it?? No fallback options??
They are trying to get rid of cash in Australia, yesterday most people couldn't buy food or anything else unless they had cash. I had a good laugh about it all.🤣
Yes, I took extra cash with me yesterday in case my card was declined. Better safe than sorry. I now need to top up my float.
I heard that Crowdstrike hired a summer substitute called Vladimir! 😉
Instead of deleting the file, take a cellcam photo of it in its directory, rename it C-00...291.BAK and/or move it somewhere safe like Photos.
When the lawsuits start flying about the millions it cost your company, that proof of existence might make a difference to a smart legal team.
Being an old mainframe systems person, 10 years ago I predicted that Windows would become unusable in the future as it required so much anti virus, malware software to make it safe to use for any critical infrastructure work.
I was going to comment the same. Do these companies never test updates before releasing
That's what you get for using Windows. Windows 11 has a lot of problems though I am not sure if all companies are using 11. Because many won't upgrade and some are still on Windows 10. I use Linux so it does not effect me but I am a bit worried about what will happen if I have to go to the shops. Since their systems may depend on the computers and they probably have Windows. With all the problems that are going on with Windows one would think more people would get the message and switch to Linux by now.
Luckily I have taken today off work and so I haven’t had to deal with this.
There is always something to catch you out with software.
I’m not sure what the fix is if you are using virtual machines.
We usually have a test system that is 24 hours in advance of our main systems, but we don’t use automatic updates directly from the network so we may not be impacted.
Good update as usual.
So little information about this appearing on Microsoft News, shocking, I know. Goodbye CrowdStrike it would seem, doubtful they'll survive this incident financially.
I just can't believe this update made it through all the testing and is being released to the public in such a condition. If a handful of pc's worldwide experience problems, I could understand that, but everywhere across the entire world? Than this just hasn't been field tested properly.
Interesting times. Thanks
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Here I sit, on my MacBook Pro, with a sly grin on my face.
"Oh........that's a shame" - Jerry seinfeld
Still running windows 7 no trouble at all
I think our credit union has been affected as well. The website and Facebook page posts a warning asking people to please use the newly updated app to browse their accounts and make transactions. That would be fine if not for the fact that not everyone uses mobile; especially all the affected businesses.
Every windows users needs to have a restore point or system image back up drive incase crashing point occures.
This does not surprise me in the slightest 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 i can't remember the last time windows updated itself and i didn't start getting BSOD's, security warnings and/or other features and basic functions affected..
Thank you so much, Brian. 😊
My pleasure!
Shows how vulnerable our so called comfortable existence is when it can be brought to a standstill by a simple mistake. I live off grid and am not really affected by all this crap, just a minor inconvenience sometimes.
Crowdstrike wasn't in my W10 pro drivers list so I can only assume it's not a W10 problem or it hasn't being on my system to begin with.
Microsoft creating havoc again 😂
Not strictly true, for once.
Crowdstrike, not Microsoft
@@tonywise198 Microsoft once had Esther McVey at a promo event
@@Britec09 I'm kidding
This is supposedly worldwide, yet here in Texas I just accessed both my local bank accounts & one Australian account online without any problem. I'm running Win10Pro and have blocked upgrading to Win11, could that be why I'm not seeing any problems- or does "worldwide" really mean "the UK?"
Strange.. My Windows 7 and Windows Server 2012 computers seem to be unaffected...
WHY are our systems so vulnerable that if there's an outage in just one company, so many things go down within a whole continent? That's just crazy. It's is a recipe for a major disaster that's most likely just around the corner. Too many vital services depend on one internet company.
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My Win10 still works and never had a problem.
Maybe it still works because I blocked the updates as you suggested 😀
By the way, this Outages is an excellent advertisement for Zorin OS.
To clarify: CrowdStrike is NOT part of Windows Defender or any other part of Windows, correct? This issue only affects people who are actually CrowdStrike users, yes? I don't use it, and I don't see these files or folders on either of my Win10 systems.
This is what amalgamation instead of decentralisation looks like