Crowdstrike and Global Windows Outage Megathread

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This thread is for general questions about CrowdStrike and how it is affecting the world. Please remember that is a place for objective explanations: this is not the appropriate subreddit to speculate about anything beyond what is being objectively reported on.

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CrowdStrike created software that prevents hackers from hacking computer. CrowdStrike’s software is used by many large companies. CrowdStrike updates installed software on the computers but bypasses large companies’ usual ‘test before deploy’ procedure. Update crashes Windows. Only way to fix currently is to have administrator password and keyboard access to the computer. I hope that’s 5min…

(source: many posts on r/sysadmin)

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