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• Bad antivirus definition triggers shutdowns

  Posted on July 20, 2024 at 02:45 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  

  ISSUE 21.29.1 • 2024-07-20

  

  By Susan Bradley

  It was a really bad day for IT admins.

  Late Thursday night, the security protection company CrowdStrike sent a bad antivirus definition file to its entire customer base. Because this faulty data file inserts itself into the Windows kernel, Windows does what it was designed to do — it goes directly to the blue screen of death (BSOD).

  Most of us can rest easy. CrowdStrike is not a product for the consumer or for a very small business. It’s an enterprise product, and thus its impact was widely seen in very large companies, triggering service interruptions for airlines, banks, healthcare providers — worldwide.

  Read the full Plus Alert (21.29.1, 2024-07-20).

  AskWoody Plus Alert Alerts, Antivirus, Blue screens of death, Crowdstrike, Outage, Patch Lady Posts

• We’re down for the count

  Posted on April 1, 2019 at 13:54 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Not completely down, per se, but close enough.

  The Lounge isn’t working right. Our devs are working on it.

  Update: Seems we had an 90 minute outage, but we seem to be back in business now (2:57pm server time)

  Devs say the outage was related to our onboard Search routine, which has been disabled.

  Other Outage