I'm an ID Admin and as messed up as it sounds, thank god I had to go to a funeral this past week. I was away from my computer so it didn't brick and all the heavy lifting was done by my coworkers.
And all because they tried to reference a pointer after setting it to be a nullptr. My professor had a field day telling us about “checking your damn code” today
Yeah it has been a bitch, trying to guide people through in getting their systems into recovery because these small departments penny pinch and don't have local IT. Yeah try getting a Karen into safe mode, or better yet if WinPE isn't fked also to create a USB recovery stick getting her into the BIOS configure it to boot from USB then getting her into safe mode and if that also fails to do the command line and delete the file.
Wait was the McAfee crash the cause of the issue with the rebranded VISS (Verizon Internet Security Suite) where it updated, the update detected itself as a virus and then auto deleted the detected virus? So many hours of explaing to customers McAfee messed up the antivirus they made for Verizon and we would have to transfer them to some guy in India claiming his name was Peggy so someone could walk them through the fix. Pretty said when your own staff start referring to your program as the "Virus Infected Security Software"
Plus side, we moved away from CrowdStrike a year ago, so we were good. Down side 1 - it still took out some 3rd party systems.... like our fire alarm. Down side 2 - initial news stations apparently said it was a Windows hack, so we spent the morning trying to convince users that every little pop-up that they normally see was not their Windows being hacked.
@@ibkraft6706 so way back computers used the last 2 numbers of they year to track when it was. So 1999 was 99 for the computer. the fear was when the year 2000 came around computers would roll from 99 (1999) to 00 (1900) instead of 2000. The word was this would cause all computers to think it was the year 1900 and then crash for some reason, shutting down the very young public Internet.
To be fair even if the instructions dont explicitly say NOT to throw it through your neighbors window, why? Default instructions are always getting your d¡ck stuck in the ceiling fan.
Yup. And I am not even black hat. I actually don't care about sides. Guess that makes me grey hat? Not important really. Regardless I bricked a phone once by accidently deleting System UI lol. Easy fix after finding the boot spiral and realizing I fucked up removing bloatware. I still have the phone. It is bricked for different reasons now. Dead LCD/Digitizer lol.
We were affect by this. The fix wasn't too hard but since most of the functions are locked behind administrators access and most of our folks are work from home our it had to call everyone individually to walk them through the fix.
And now they know how to put there pcs into safemode and access stuff yippee, wait till they use this new knowledge to try fixing stuff next time there pc breaks.
@Darkjayson82 Again, those functions are locked behind administrators' access. You have to enter a code that is sent to the IT department, not the user.
@@benjaminhagen971 That's actually a pretty solid defense. A good chunk of the new generation of cybercriminals has no idea how to work with that kinda shit!
@@benjaminhagen971 You think that's bad you should see what our nuclear missiles run. Floppy disks & not the little ones. They're the big 9 inch ones.
As someone who works in the SFO airport for one of the airlines that doesn’t use Crowd Strike, it’s eerie how quiet things got after Friday. Because Friday was pandemonium, and for the last few days it’s just been super quiet. Delta customers keep coming over, hoping we can fly them places, but we’re already full up.
I would've loved to have been the fly on the wall when the Crowdstrike devs and CEO realised their error and the fallout. You just know the look of "OH SH*T!!" they had to have been wearing is the stuff of legends.
I'm 25 and before I figured out how to port forward multiplayer servers in 6th grade my friends and I would just bring our computers to each other's houses
For ages LAN was the easiest way to do minecraft with friends for pocket edition kids. Definitely still in use well into 2018 at least from what I observed
"My computer won't work!" "Have you tried turning it off and on again?" "Yes, but now it just keeps turning off and on by itself!" "...Welp, I'm out of ideas. That'll be $375.45 for the call, I'm going to lunch."
It completely halted the airline industry, most of the banking industry, and a not inconsiderable number of misc businesses across the world for the better part of two days. This *easily* caused hundreds of billions of dollars in damages.
@@ComotoseOnAnime Yet Crowd is somehow going to get away with this unscathed. Seriously, how hard is to try to run patches through test servers and computers before a release? For something fundamental like this one would think that is a super basic common sense.
@@morphingninjaa lot of bigger companies use crowdstrike. Including airports, hospitals, government agencies the London stock exchange etc. Not EVERY company. So you could be fine. But a lot weren't. We only have an IT department at our location, just head office. So today I spent like an hour putting in the fix from our main office on multiple desktops of people who failed to do that yesterday (was pushed sunday). Yes the French had to work weekends apparently
I have coworkers still waiting on a callback from our IT department to fix their laptops. I called twice Friday for a total of a 2 hour wait and then called at 2am on Saturday and got right through 😂
Why hasn't IT circulated a stripped down diagnostic-image that just purges the problem file and then boots the main OS. There's nothing for users to screw up, IT just needs to know where to mail their users, some blank media and 3 minutes to burn a boot-dis-- Oh right, windows 10... And (I guess) booting from an external device would already have been disabled...
@@LynxSnowCat the problem was with booting. Our IT headoffice put out a fix, for which you had to have your laptop physically connected to the network (docking station worked fine). And just open bios. Open that Internet port and then just smash enter a bunch of times to install. So they kinda did that. You just had to manually start that procedure. As nothing else would automatically boot. They tried doing that remote. It didn't work. So we had to open the bios. But not really do a lot of stuff in it.
@@dutchik5107 I'm starting to think those Cy and Pi based KVM-over-IP projects weren't so [dumb] now that I'm realising that they may have use outside of datacenters [adapting] consumer hardware... (edit: I wonder if anyone makes a dock with one built in...) (for less than $300... and more than 1/5 star reviews...)
@@LynxSnowCat Probably because of the constant boot loop, a diagnostic image wouldn't have been able to run the OS because the OS kept crashing at launch. Also, iirc part of the fix required manually changing bios settings, something that could end up being a security risk or cause other problems/breakages down the road if normal staff are mucking about with security settings.
I was stuck in austin texas for 36 hours when it happened. I was on my way to my honeymoon since I was hospitalized for almost a year because of a coma. It was also my first vacation in over 2 decades.
@@Penguinmanereikel I mean, the fact they clearly didn't run their patch through test servers and computers doesn't show them in any form of positive light.
I work IT for a small none profit and please please please never tell anyone born pre 90s to just start deleting things,that's how you end up with a laptop without an admin account or password but also unable to do anything because there is no admin access at all or a computer clinging to life where any miss click could make it explode
I'm more concerned for the younger users, non IT people, having never used MSDos or any command prompt coherently. Moreover ageist comments are useless. All generations have their idiots and experts.
@@MeridaEllaSinnottDBurtram ya I get that,but having work with people who are exclusively 40-50+ older people are far more likely to make what wed think of as big or stupid mistakes mostly because they didn't grow up with it,so many things we think of as simple like quick commands ie contrl z and contrl c some of the people I've worked under didn't know how to do and literally looked at me like I invented the steam engine. I'm not saying all elders are bad at computers and not all younglings are good with them, but in my personal experience I'd rather have the 20-30 something who grew up with it and probably used it in school to not make it worse since its recen in their skills
@@MeridaEllaSinnottDBurtram I agree. Wouldn't trust my parents to do it while walking them through it (the "I can't do a software update"), but wouldn't trust my younger sister to, either (the "I can't print from my ipad with an hp printer")
Oh, it was so much worse. Emergency services and hospitals were shut down too. Some countries were pretty much shut down if i understood the info correctly. Info provided by Pirate Software
A suggestion “hey pentex what do you do buddy” “oh nothing malicious like carrying out the deeds of the wyrm” pentex is a fictional company from the world of darkness series
I was talking to my mom who worked at an IT help desk back in 1999. This is the kind of disaster that people were worried about happening during Y2K. And it could have happened if it weren't for IT people back then working their asses off for months to fix the problem before it happened
As an IT technician, I absolutely agree with this short. I actually blew someone's mind earlier explaining how easy it is to brick a computer by playing in System32 or the registries.
Now that I know about the shaking thing, it makes so much more sense. I thought it was purposeful, but now I know that it's just that you are not hiding your condition.
"you can't expect small businesses without an it Department go into their settings and start deleting things" I work in a smallish pharmacy in Germany and luckily we managed to solve the problems by noon, but on monday we got a call from an elderly pharmacist who still was totally unfinctioning and on the verge of tears. He was so sweet, I felt really bad for him.
It is VERY easy to fix. You can do it yourself easily. Just boot in safe mode and delete ONE file. Its not hard. Embarrasing it took so long for things to be fixed.
We had two computers that we couldn't get back up until Monday! I work at a library, no one could reserve study rooms or scan or fax until Monday when IT came back in to finish fixing things!
I work for an MSP, all of our clients used Crowdstrike. Nothing like getting a call from almost every user having the BSOD issues and having to remotely guide them to start windows in safe mode with networking enabled so we could hop on. Was a massive pain for over a week as it also impacted servers
Best reminder that you can’t replace in person IT professionals…. And they more than pay for themselves by you know fixing issues that could keep you offline for multiple days.
The three hospitals up the road from me had to cancel sooooo many appointments and the interns had to get used to being information and document mules for the doctors. It was awful.
Just another reason to love my Chromebook. I have had pretty much every laptop brand over the years and none have come close to the Chromebook I have now.
I mean, Crowdstrike is pretty specifically set up to do cyber security for businesses, so their software isn't on any personal computers. It isn't good, it's screwed up A LOT of stuff, but it didn't directly impact the regular users.
Thankfully, our systems weren't affected directly but we did have people traveling that had flights delayed and had a hell of a weekend getting home, and now trying to get expenses for the extra days is a fun way to spend a monday
Good thing most things in Sys32 are protected. And even if you manage to delete something important, you can replace it/repair it. Or alternatively just boot another machine, plug in the hard drive and copy everything important over
None of my IT clients were offline for more than 15 seconds thanks to responsible practices. 1, always have fully redundant servers for all business critical systems. 2, never update all of your systems at the same time. Make sure your main system is up and running correctly and stable before updating your backup system. 3, the moment that the main system fails to boot correctly, connect everything to the backup system, and prevent the backup system from updating until the main system is back online.
Remember back what was it 2020 or 2021 I recall an article and even some videos on how our updating systems for windows and other devices had been hijacked and we shouldn’t trust anymore updates. I haven’t updated my pc for a while now and it’s working perfectly fine, it’s not slow it functions the same as it did years ago.
“Try hacking a brick” almost spill all of the water while drinking 😂😂
Same!
I dropped my coffee
@@MYyGUNRest In Pepperoni
I was already laughing so hard that all I heard was “brick”
Pick it up and hack it across the room, think smarter not harder.
I'm a IT engineer for a high end company this has been a nightmare and I totally agree!!! Don't let anyone that doesn't know crap delete random shit!
I'm an ID Admin and as messed up as it sounds, thank god I had to go to a funeral this past week. I was away from my computer so it didn't brick and all the heavy lifting was done by my coworkers.
lol ID admin, I met a wifi engineer the other day too 🤡
@@LuminousVoyage-o5g Yeah, meant to say IT Administrator, just made a typo on my phone.
And all because they tried to reference a pointer after setting it to be a nullptr. My professor had a field day telling us about “checking your damn code” today
Yeah it has been a bitch, trying to guide people through in getting their systems into recovery because these small departments penny pinch and don't have local IT. Yeah try getting a Karen into safe mode, or better yet if WinPE isn't fked also to create a USB recovery stick getting her into the BIOS configure it to boot from USB then getting her into safe mode and if that also fails to do the command line and delete the file.
CEO of Crowdstrike's crash of 2024 also oversaw the great McAfee crash of 2010.
Weird.
On the bright side, when he switches companies we know what'll come next.
Wait was the McAfee crash the cause of the issue with the rebranded VISS (Verizon Internet Security Suite) where it updated, the update detected itself as a virus and then auto deleted the detected virus?
So many hours of explaing to customers McAfee messed up the antivirus they made for Verizon and we would have to transfer them to some guy in India claiming his name was Peggy so someone could walk them through the fix.
Pretty said when your own staff start referring to your program as the "Virus Infected Security Software"
@@Intellectual_Designs Beware the crash of *_INSERT COMPANY NAME_* od 2038.
Hopefully he retires out of the workforce after this.
Third time's the charm ?
As an IT person for a company who doesn't use CrowdStrike, I'm just glad this didn't happen to us
We have in all in all of our computers only one was affected but some other systems where affected
We changed away from crowdstrike a month ago to a different security provider. It was relief all around the office about that decision
Hey I got enough OT to double my paycheck, so I'm tired but having a nice dinner.
big same
Plus side, we moved away from CrowdStrike a year ago, so we were good. Down side 1 - it still took out some 3rd party systems.... like our fire alarm. Down side 2 - initial news stations apparently said it was a Windows hack, so we spent the morning trying to convince users that every little pop-up that they normally see was not their Windows being hacked.
Cloudstrike effectively made Y2K into a reality
24.5 years later. That's dial up for you.
Explain made y2k into a reality?
😮😂@@ibkraft6706
I still kept my PC magazines from 1999 as souvenirs.😅
@@ibkraft6706 so way back computers used the last 2 numbers of they year to track when it was. So 1999 was 99 for the computer. the fear was when the year 2000 came around computers would roll from 99 (1999) to 00 (1900) instead of 2000. The word was this would cause all computers to think it was the year 1900 and then crash for some reason, shutting down the very young public Internet.
Instructions unclear. Instead of hacking a brick I hucked it. Now I owe my neighbor a new window.
Bricking windows in both realms
Better then Mt case. I owe them a new hood and windshield. Lol
@@Hello-ub8ktComment of the day right here.
Good thing you weren't Goofy enough to hyuck it
To be fair even if the instructions dont explicitly say NOT to throw it through your neighbors window, why?
Default instructions are always getting your d¡ck stuck in the ceiling fan.
Flight radar over there having a seizure
Reminds me of the flight radar after 9/11.
My exact thought too.@@superpilotdude
@@superpilotdude okay I guess
@@superpilotdudethe fact that it could line up is insane
It’s literally the night shift… Course there’s going to be flight slowdowns.
LOL That last line sounded liked Norton's defination of a firewall/antivirus, "If you can't go online you can't get a virus
It actually reminded me of when Miniscribe had literal bricks labeled as hard drives.
They did their job, they kept your info safe, even from you.
(Edit): Why did this get 2.6k likes?! Tysm
Black hat hackers with experience in breaking into a bricked computer: we disagree.
@@andy56duky Yeah.... I've unbricked my own computer before
@@Fallerin take my hacked like.
Especially from you
Yup. And I am not even black hat. I actually don't care about sides. Guess that makes me grey hat? Not important really.
Regardless I bricked a phone once by accidently deleting System UI lol. Easy fix after finding the boot spiral and realizing I fucked up removing bloatware.
I still have the phone. It is bricked for different reasons now. Dead LCD/Digitizer lol.
We were affect by this. The fix wasn't too hard but since most of the functions are locked behind administrators access and most of our folks are work from home our it had to call everyone individually to walk them through the fix.
Ours has pop-up "tech bars" for them to come to.
And now they know how to put there pcs into safemode and access stuff yippee, wait till they use this new knowledge to try fixing stuff next time there pc breaks.
@Darkjayson82 Again, those functions are locked behind administrators' access. You have to enter a code that is sent to the IT department, not the user.
@@Darkjayson82eh. A lot of people know how to open the bios. Just like don't want to touch that shit
@@Darkjayson82Most people would rather use the opportunity to do nothing and blame it on IT.
You missed the best part, no Southwest Airlines flights are down because all of their IT stuff runs off a single Commodore 64 in some warehouse 😂
Security via obsolescence. Gotta love it!
Actually windows 3.1 and 95. Seriously look it up
@@benjaminhagen971 That's actually a pretty solid defense.
A good chunk of the new generation of cybercriminals has no idea how to work with that kinda shit!
@@alexunderwood7899 Southwest supposedly (meaning I don't know for certain) posted about it on Twitter saying they run on a Commodore 64.
@@benjaminhagen971 You think that's bad you should see what our nuclear missiles run. Floppy disks & not the little ones. They're the big 9 inch ones.
"All my info is secure, I can't even get to it!"
Apple, Google, Meta: *aggressively cooking*
The most interesting programmer in the world:
I don’t always test my code; but when I do, I do it in production
@@jkid1190 This made me laugh too hard. It's so true.
😂
And don't roll it out. If one fails they all must fail.
And always push out the great new code on a Friday!!! What could go wrong? You push out update, and have weekend off right? …right?
as a former cybersecurity guy I can confirm..... it's really, Really, REALLY hard to hack a brick
As someone who works in the SFO airport for one of the airlines that doesn’t use Crowd Strike, it’s eerie how quiet things got after Friday. Because Friday was pandemonium, and for the last few days it’s just been super quiet. Delta customers keep coming over, hoping we can fly them places, but we’re already full up.
I had to cancel a whole trip due to the ripples this caused.
@@shilyarrmee I’m sorry, amigo. I hope you got everything refunded and you can reschedule.
I would've loved to have been the fly on the wall when the Crowdstrike devs and CEO realised their error and the fallout. You just know the look of "OH SH*T!!" they had to have been wearing is the stuff of legends.
War, war never changes.
"Just delete a file from system 32."
Are we so sure these guys WEREN'T doing all of this intentionally.
Maybe they should come out with ukulele apology video. That always helps.
"lan party!" Ah the good old days! You cannot be old enough to remember those! I only just remember those! 😂
I'm 25 and before I figured out how to port forward multiplayer servers in 6th grade my friends and I would just bring our computers to each other's houses
For ages LAN was the easiest way to do minecraft with friends for pocket edition kids. Definitely still in use well into 2018 at least from what I observed
"My computer won't work!"
"Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
"Yes, but now it just keeps turning off and on by itself!"
"...Welp, I'm out of ideas. That'll be $375.45 for the call, I'm going to lunch."
Mans broke the cardinal rule of IT: Never release a patch on a Friday.
I want the math on the approximate cost of damages done per kb of the 41kb file lol
10s of billions on the low end
It completely halted the airline industry, most of the banking industry, and a not inconsiderable number of misc businesses across the world for the better part of two days.
This *easily* caused hundreds of billions of dollars in damages.
@@ComotoseOnAnimeCan’t wait to read the abstracts of the economic impact papers in a few years. Geez!
You're forgetting 911, I bet a few people died.
@@ComotoseOnAnime Yet Crowd is somehow going to get away with this unscathed.
Seriously, how hard is to try to run patches through test servers and computers before a release?
For something fundamental like this one would think that is a super basic common sense.
I work in IT, and I've never been more happy about the fact that we're too cheap to use anything remotely resembling modern technology.
The Southwest Airlines approach to cyber security.
If it works, don't break it.
We out here releasing worldwide (root kernel death spiral) patches on a Friday 🗣️🗣️🗣️
Who puts out a patch on FRIDAY?! There are ALWAYS bugs! That's either unhinged, negligent, or both.
"Try hacking a brick." No, no. He's got a point.
I have spent 16 hours of my life now dealing with and its not over yet.
My weekend went like any other. Even Monday went pretty normal. Who exactly did this hit?
@@morphingninjaa lot of bigger companies use crowdstrike. Including airports, hospitals, government agencies the London stock exchange etc.
Not EVERY company. So you could be fine. But a lot weren't.
We only have an IT department at our location, just head office. So today I spent like an hour putting in the fix from our main office on multiple desktops of people who failed to do that yesterday (was pushed sunday). Yes the French had to work weekends apparently
@dutchik5107 sounds like an "all of the eggs in one basket" problem
That try havking a brick got me more than it should've
Crowdstrike sounds like the name of a supervillain company
Try hacking a brick 🤔.
Challenge accepted.
I have coworkers still waiting on a callback from our IT department to fix their laptops. I called twice Friday for a total of a 2 hour wait and then called at 2am on Saturday and got right through 😂
Why hasn't IT circulated a stripped down diagnostic-image that just purges the problem file and then boots the main OS.
There's nothing for users to screw up, IT just needs to know where to mail their users, some blank media and 3 minutes to burn a boot-dis-- Oh right, windows 10...
And (I guess) booting from an external device would already have been disabled...
@@LynxSnowCat the problem was with booting.
Our IT headoffice put out a fix, for which you had to have your laptop physically connected to the network (docking station worked fine). And just open bios. Open that Internet port and then just smash enter a bunch of times to install.
So they kinda did that. You just had to manually start that procedure. As nothing else would automatically boot.
They tried doing that remote. It didn't work.
So we had to open the bios. But not really do a lot of stuff in it.
@@dutchik5107 I'm starting to think those Cy and Pi based KVM-over-IP projects weren't so [dumb] now that I'm realising that they may have use outside of datacenters [adapting] consumer hardware... (edit: I wonder if anyone makes a dock with one built in...) (for less than $300... and more than 1/5 star reviews...)
@@LynxSnowCat Probably because of the constant boot loop, a diagnostic image wouldn't have been able to run the OS because the OS kept crashing at launch.
Also, iirc part of the fix required manually changing bios settings, something that could end up being a security risk or cause other problems/breakages down the road if normal staff are mucking about with security settings.
With how many jokes I hear over the years, I love that “Try hacking a brick!” Got me good 😂🤣
I was stuck in austin texas for 36 hours when it happened. I was on my way to my honeymoon since I was hospitalized for almost a year because of a coma. It was also my first vacation in over 2 decades.
Clownstroke done mucked up!
This is why you don't buy things made on a friday or a monday
Just like how you don't give tests on those days either
Lil bro really said cloudstrike triggering ptsd 💀💀💀
They broke two of the Cardinal rules of IT they pushed out an untested patch on a Friday
"We nailed it, try hacking a bricks the best line I ever heard
"That's how you make a computer an expensive brick!"
My OG Zune in 2006: 😭
Looks like their stock feel off a cliff as well.
It's down 30% over the last 5 days
@@12jswilsonyeah, I took a look at their stocks and it's been dripping for days, although the update alone crashed the stock literally be 10% alone
@@Penguinmanereikel I mean, the fact they clearly didn't run their patch through test servers and computers doesn't show them in any form of positive light.
“Try hacking a brick” man makes a damn good point
I work IT for a small none profit and please please please never tell anyone born pre 90s to just start deleting things,that's how you end up with a laptop without an admin account or password but also unable to do anything because there is no admin access at all or a computer clinging to life where any miss click could make it explode
I'm more concerned for the younger users, non IT people, having never used MSDos or any command prompt coherently.
Moreover ageist comments are useless. All generations have their idiots and experts.
@@MeridaEllaSinnottDBurtram ya I get that,but having work with people who are exclusively 40-50+ older people are far more likely to make what wed think of as big or stupid mistakes mostly because they didn't grow up with it,so many things we think of as simple like quick commands ie contrl z and contrl c some of the people I've worked under didn't know how to do and literally looked at me like I invented the steam engine.
I'm not saying all elders are bad at computers and not all younglings are good with them, but in my personal experience I'd rather have the 20-30 something who grew up with it and probably used it in school to not make it worse since its recen in their skills
@@MeridaEllaSinnottDBurtram I agree. Wouldn't trust my parents to do it while walking them through it (the "I can't do a software update"), but wouldn't trust my younger sister to, either (the "I can't print from my ipad with an hp printer")
Hes got a point. 😅 (But that sounds suspiciously like a challenge someone might actually accept)
Any else getting dalek vibes from some of these companies
"Try hacking a brick!" Sent me to Brazil!
OMFG!!! well. I tried, it told me to kick rocks.😂😂😂
Oh, it was so much worse. Emergency services and hospitals were shut down too. Some countries were pretty much shut down if i understood the info correctly.
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A suggestion “hey pentex what do you do buddy” “oh nothing malicious like carrying out the deeds of the wyrm” pentex is a fictional company from the world of darkness series
Too many real ones making the Wyrm look like the Garou. Stick to the 'this universe' versions.
He only does real companies. Leave WoD in our imaginations, there are enough issues in the real world without the Wyrm.
This is why you should do a back up at least once a week.
As someone that works along side the airlines, I picked a HECK of a time frame to take 2 weeks off beforehand.
Good point a brick is not glitch able or workaround able or useable
Useless companies will never cease to make me laugh
I was talking to my mom who worked at an IT help desk back in 1999. This is the kind of disaster that people were worried about happening during Y2K. And it could have happened if it weren't for IT people back then working their asses off for months to fix the problem before it happened
All the big businesses lock their employees from booting in safe mode.
Low-key you can't really argue with that logic
As an IT technician, I absolutely agree with this short. I actually blew someone's mind earlier explaining how easy it is to brick a computer by playing in System32 or the registries.
In theory, as long as people can read, fixing the issue should be no problem.
In theory
Now that I know about the shaking thing, it makes so much more sense. I thought it was purposeful, but now I know that it's just that you are not hiding your condition.
I am SO GLAD that I've been using an outdated version of Windows 10 for years
That’s not gonna fix your problem. The issue is with crowdstrike, which you probably don’t have installed unless it’s a work computer.
Had me on the floor with the try hacking a brick
That ending is killer!
Me with a bladed sledge hammer, 'hacking bricks'
Damn, Skynet didn't have to exist yet? 👀
"you can't expect small businesses without an it Department go into their settings and start deleting things"
I work in a smallish pharmacy in Germany and luckily we managed to solve the problems by noon, but on monday we got a call from an elderly pharmacist who still was totally unfinctioning and on the verge of tears. He was so sweet, I felt really bad for him.
What i love about your videos is you do your research
It is VERY easy to fix. You can do it yourself easily. Just boot in safe mode and delete ONE file. Its not hard. Embarrasing it took so long for things to be fixed.
Exactly, all those computers are immune to hacking now, crowdstrike win for sure
We had two computers that we couldn't get back up until Monday! I work at a library, no one could reserve study rooms or scan or fax until Monday when IT came back in to finish fixing things!
I'm so lucky. I couldn't connect to the internet on my computer for the past almost week.
I work for an MSP, all of our clients used Crowdstrike. Nothing like getting a call from almost every user having the BSOD issues and having to remotely guide them to start windows in safe mode with networking enabled so we could hop on. Was a massive pain for over a week as it also impacted servers
Best reminder that you can’t replace in person IT professionals…. And they more than pay for themselves by you know fixing issues that could keep you offline for multiple days.
The three hospitals up the road from me had to cancel sooooo many appointments and the interns had to get used to being information and document mules for the doctors. It was awful.
This is why I always keep an "oh shit stick" around, AKA a thumbdrive with copies of Windows, Mint, GParted, and the Kaspersky recovery environment.
So much chaos, for such a *stupid* reason.
That gives the same energy as, "If there's no survivors, it's super stealthy."
Lol, my work. We have to wait until tomorrow or Wednesday for IT
Not to mention the global halt of transportation and logistics. Preventing the movement of goods across the world.
Yeah my job was affected too we had to wait for two hours before we could work
Man, I’m glad I fly southwest
Just another reason to love my Chromebook. I have had pretty much every laptop brand over the years and none have come close to the Chromebook I have now.
I mean, Crowdstrike is pretty specifically set up to do cyber security for businesses, so their software isn't on any personal computers. It isn't good, it's screwed up A LOT of stuff, but it didn't directly impact the regular users.
"we somehow shipped ALL ZEROS, and nobody noticed until after the update"
"try hacking a brick" no no, he has a point
Thankfully, our systems weren't affected directly but we did have people traveling that had flights delayed and had a hell of a weekend getting home, and now trying to get expenses for the extra days is a fun way to spend a monday
Love the lan party idea and loved your face and the deleting part lol
Crowdstrike seeing the damage: *Bart & Lisa's Baby-sitter Bandit scream* + *Homer's Iconic scream*
Good thing most things in Sys32 are protected. And even if you manage to delete something important, you can replace it/repair it. Or alternatively just boot another machine, plug in the hard drive and copy everything important over
I work in IT and I had to deal with this disaster at my company. Shit sucked
Yea, I know too many people at CS who 💩 their pants when this happened. Many people are being fired for sure
None of my IT clients were offline for more than 15 seconds thanks to responsible practices.
1, always have fully redundant servers for all business critical systems.
2, never update all of your systems at the same time. Make sure your main system is up and running correctly and stable before updating your backup system.
3, the moment that the main system fails to boot correctly, connect everything to the backup system, and prevent the backup system from updating until the main system is back online.
I mean.......bros got a good point there at the end 😂😂😂😂
"try hacking a brick" comedic perfection 😂😂
I work in IT for 3m. We got HIT by this. I'm still cleaning up some of the mess left behind from this month's later.
I believe the phrase "not even wrong" is apt here...
Some of this is Microsoft's fault as well, mostly for having crapy boot logins files since Windows 3.1.
"try hacking a brick" thats a good point
Flight radar might be my favorite app shit slaps so hard
I am so glad I wasn’t taking a hit when that “try hacking a brick” line came up. I likely would have died.
My mom’s a VP in IT for her company. She didn’t sleep for like a week
Rofl did they really want folks to go rooting around in their system 32...really? You can't make this up
Remember back what was it 2020 or 2021 I recall an article and even some videos on how our updating systems for windows and other devices had been hijacked and we shouldn’t trust anymore updates. I haven’t updated my pc for a while now and it’s working perfectly fine, it’s not slow it functions the same as it did years ago.
At least they ponied up and said it was their screw up instead of blaming it on something else.