@farcaster@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world • 2 years agoWindows PCs crashing worldwide due to CrowdStrike issuemashable.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up1114arrow-down12cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
arrow-up1112arrow-down1external-linkWindows PCs crashing worldwide due to CrowdStrike issuemashable.com@farcaster@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world • 2 years agomessage-square8fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
minus-squareBeaver [she/her]linkfedilinkEnglish13•2 years agoThis why windows 11 needing an online account to sign up is a bad idea
minus-square@JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.calinkfedilink16•2 years agoTurns out this is a CrowdStrike issue though, so unrelated in this case.
minus-square@lmaydev@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink15•2 years agoIt’s a third party piece of software causing the issues though.
minus-square@drcabbage@lemmy.mllinkfedilink4•2 years agoCrowdstrike 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.
minus-square@lmaydev@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink2•2 years agoYeah it’s driver level so very small bugs can bring everything down
minus-square@Buffalox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink7•2 years agoYep, the only real functions of that is copy protection, and Microsoft gathering data.
This why windows 11 needing an online account to sign up is a bad idea
Turns out this is a CrowdStrike issue though, so unrelated in this case.
It’s a third party piece of software causing the issues though.
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.
Yeah it’s driver level so very small bugs can bring everything down
Yep, the only real functions of that is copy protection, and Microsoft gathering data.
Or maybe just generally a bad idea…