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minus-squareDigitalDilemma@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-210 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-squarePotatisen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoMaybe a stupid question but why would not reaching an online service (?) blue screen your computer?
minus-squarelmaydev@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-210 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.
minus-squareDigitalDilemma@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoIt has a privileged service running locally - csagent.sys - that was crashing causing the BSOD.
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?
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.
It has a privileged service running locally - csagent.sys - that was crashing causing the BSOD.