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minus-squareDigitalDilemmalinkfedilinkEnglish21•edit-211 months agoIt seems to be crowdstrike reacting to the new update. We have got ours up by the very manual process of: 1 Boot into safe mode. Navigate to C:\windows\system32\drivers\crowdstrike Delete C-00000291*.sys Reboot normally
minus-square@Potatisen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•11 months agoMaybe a stupid question but why would not reaching an online service (?) blue screen your computer?
minus-squareDigitalDilemmalinkfedilinkEnglish2•11 months agoIt has a privileged service running locally - csagent.sys - that was crashing causing the BSOD.
minus-square@lmaydev@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink0•edit-211 months agoI guess if the code acted as if it got a valid response without checking it could get into a very weird state. Or the code just fails hard. At the driver level it’s very easy to kill things.
It seems to be crowdstrike reacting to the new update.
We have got ours up by the very manual process of:
1 Boot into safe mode.
Navigate to C:\windows\system32\drivers\crowdstrike
Delete C-00000291*.sys
Reboot normally
Maybe a stupid question but why would not reaching an online service (?) blue screen your computer?
It has a privileged service running locally - csagent.sys - that was crashing causing the BSOD.
I guess if the code acted as if it got a valid response without checking it could get into a very weird state. Or the code just fails hard.
At the driver level it’s very easy to kill things.