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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by rxxrc@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

All our servers and company laptops went down at pretty much the same time. Laptops have been bootlooping to blue screen of death. It's all very exciting, personally, as someone not responsible for fixing it.

Apparently caused by a bad CrowdStrike update.

Edit: now being told we (who almost all generally work from home) need to come into the office Monday as they can only apply the fix in-person. We'll see if that changes over the weekend...

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago

I was quite surprised when I heard the news. I had been working for hours on my PC without any issues. It pays off not to use Windows.

[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 4 months ago

It's not a flaw with Windows causing this.

The issue is with a widely used third party security software that installs as a kernel level driver. It had an auto update that causes bluescreening moments after booting into the OS.

This same software is available for Linux and Mac, and had similar issues with specific Linux distros a month ago. It just didn't get reported on because it didn't have as wide of an impact.

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