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There are in the past similar incidents. For example incident with Mcafee. The bug renders all windows clients unusable. Then after the incident some companies switch to checkpoint. But this crowdstrike is worse than previous incidents. The bug brings the entire windows OS to crash.The fun part with CrowdStrike is this:
It is a kernel mode driver that is causing the crash.... this should be impossible really. Why? Because of this : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/w...igning-requirements--windows-vista-and-later-
Basically, you need Microsoft's nod before your driver can load into any retail windows installation. Windows does not load a kernel mode driver without Microsoft's signature.
This only means one and only one thing. Crowdstrike is somehow able to load a kernel mode driver without Microsoft's vetting.
That's not a very comforting thought.
But the lesson to learn is never anable automatic update no matter crowdstrike, Mcafee or Checkpoint.
We are off topic though. This is DoS attack.