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Windows PCs crashing worldwide due to CrowdStrike issue

mashable.com Windows PCs crashing worldwide due to CrowdStrike issue

A fitting end to the week.

Technology @lemmy.world Windows PCs crashing worldwide due to CrowdStrike issue

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This why windows 11 needing an online account to sign up is a bad idea

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- Turns out this is a CrowdStrike issue though, so unrelated in this case.
  
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- It's a third party piece of software causing the issues though.
  
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  Crowdstrike has a lot of internal control of your machine in order to do things like hook into the processes you are running to observe any malicious activity. It makes sense that a bug could bring the whole system down.
  
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- Yep, the only real functions of that is copy protection, and Microsoft gathering data.
  
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- Or maybe just generally a bad idea...
  
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Good day to take notes. Which employers are using crowdstrike

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