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CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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Post by wyager »

zmmmmm wrote: post #349

So CrowdStrike is deployed as third party software into the critical path of mission critical systems and then left to update itself. It's easy to blame CrowdStrike but that seems too easy on both the orgs that do this but also the upstream forces that compel them to do it. My org which does mission critical healthcare just deployed ZScaler on every computer which is now in the critical path of every computer startin…

Zscaler is such insane garbage. Legitimately one of the worst pieces of software I have ever used. If your organization is structurally competent, it will never use Zscaler and will just use wireguard or something.

Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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Post by ShuffleBoard »

zmmmmm wrote: post #349

So CrowdStrike is deployed as third party software into the critical path of mission critical systems and then left to update itself. It's easy to blame CrowdStrike but that seems too easy on both the orgs that do this but also the upstream forces that compel them to do it. My org which does mission critical healthcare just deployed ZScaler on every computer which is now in the critical path of every computer startin…

Picking up pennies in front of a steamroller...

Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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Post by stevetron »

Working late Thursday night in Florida, USA. I have someone in Australia wanting me to write a quick script in LSL for an object in Second Life. We were interrupted: Second Life kept running, but Discord went down, telling me to 'try another server' which doesn't make sence when you are 1-on-1 with someone. All my typing in Discord turned red. Additionally, I couldn't log into the email portal for outlook.com: I got a screen of tiny-fonted text all clinging to the left edge of the display, unreadable, unusable. Second Life, though, stayed online and kept working for me, but then I'm on Windows 7. My friend who had requested the collaboration froze in Second Life on his Windows 10 system, and I don't know what his Discord was doing. I ended the session since I couldn't get a no/no-go out of him for the latest script version.

Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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Post by upofadown »

Perhaps a dumb question for someone who actually knows how Microsoft stuff works...

Why would an anti-malware program be allowed to install a driver automatically ... or ever for that matter?

Added: OK, from another post I now know Crowdstrike has some sort of kernel mode that allows this sort of catastrophe on Linux. So I guess there is a bigger question here...

Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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Post by MetaWhirledPeas »

JackC wrote: post #538

Crowdstrike did this to our production linux fleet back on April 19th, and I've been dying to rant about it. The short version was: we're a civic tech lab, so we have a bunch of different production websites made at different times on different infrastructure. We run Crowdstrike provided by our enterprise. Crowdstrike pushed an update on a Friday evening that was incompatible with up-to-date Debian stable. So we patc…

> we push software to your machines any time we want, whether or not it's urgent, without testing it

Do they allow you to control updates? It sounds like what you want is for a small subset of your machines using the latest, while the rest wait for stability to be proven.

Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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Post by _def »

stevetron wrote: post #624

Working late Thursday night in Florida, USA. I have someone in Australia wanting me to write a quick script in LSL for an object in Second Life. We were interrupted: Second Life kept running, but Discord went down, telling me to 'try another server' which doesn't make sence when you are 1-on-1 with someone. All my typing in Discord turned red. Additionally, I couldn't log into the email portal for outlook.com: I got…

Wow I didn't know second life was still a thing. Literally yesterday I looked at a 20 year old archived version of a freeware portal which also listed a version of second life.
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