[LINK] The Great IT Outage of 2024

[Bernard Robertson-Dunn]

On 20/07/2024 11:42 am, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> 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? 

https://theconversation.com/what-is-crowdstrike-falcon-and-what-does-it-do-is-my-computer-safe-235123

Why aren’t home PCs affected?

While CrowdStrike’s products are widely deployed in major organisations 
that need to protect themselves from cyber attacks, they are much less 
commonly used on home PCs.

This is because CrowdStrike’s products are tailored for large 
organisations in which CrowdStrike’s tools help them monitor their 
networks for signs of attack, and provide them with the information they 
need to respond to intrusions in a timely way.

For home users, built-in antivirus sofware or security products offered 
by companies such as Norton and McAfee are much more popular.

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Regards
brd

Bernard Robertson-Dunn
Canberra Australia
email: brd at iimetro.com.au