[LINK] The Great IT Outage of 2024

[Jan Whitaker]

I asked another group about this possibly affecting a personal computer 
on Windows and was told no. Is that accurate? Does anyone know for sure?

Jan

On 20/07/2024 11:32 am, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
> This will tell you all about the tech problem - It was a bad .sys file 
> in Crowdstrike's software.
>
> https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/19/1095161/fix-windows-pc-microsoft-crowdstrike-outage/ 
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> If people had been trying to do an early update on their Crowdstrike, 
> they would have encountered the problem.
>
> From the MIT website this is how to fix it:
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> How to manually fix your affected computer
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> There is a known workaround for Windows computers that requires 
> administrative access to its systems. If you’re affected and have that 
> high level of access, CrowdStrike has recommended the following steps:
>
> 1. Boot Windows into safe mode or the Windows Recovery Environment.
>
> 2. Navigate to the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike directory.
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> 3. Locate the file matching “C-00000291*.sys” and delete it.
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> Then reboot.
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> On 20/07/2024 10:44 am, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>> There was some speculation that the MS problem had been brewing 
>> separately for a few days and the Crowdstrike problem was coincidental.
>>
>> As I understand it, the problem from CS was at the server level ???? 
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