All our servers and company laptops went down at pretty much the same time. Laptops have been bootlooping to blue screen of death. It’s all very exciting, personally, as someone not responsible for fixing it.
Apparently caused by a bad CrowdStrike update.
Edit: now being told we (who almost all generally work from home) need to come into the office Monday as they can only apply the fix in-person. We’ll see if that changes over the weekend…
There is a fix people have found which requires manual booting into safe mode and removal of a file causing the BSODs. No clue if/how they are going to implement a fix remotely when the affected machines can’t even boot.
If you have an account you can view the support thread here: https://supportportal.crowdstrike.com/s/article/Tech-Alert-Windows-crashes-related-to-Falcon-Sensor-2024-07-19
Workaround Steps:
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Boot Windows into Safe Mode or the Windows Recovery Environment
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Navigate to the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike directory
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Locate the file matching “C-00000291*.sys”, and delete it.
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Boot the host normally.
You just need console access. Which if any of the affected servers are VMs, you’ll have.
