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Basically, drivers can launch code all the way up to ring 0, the highest level a code can access to. This mean it runs its code with the same priviledges as the kernel itself. The anti-malware solution CrowdStrike makes use of this access to determine what could be going wrong, and deploy solutions accordingly.
If a code running in that level crashes, Windows will rightfully assume there’s something really fucked up is going on, and give out a BSOD.
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there’s something really fucked up going on
I would actually prefer this kind of error over the usual and equally uninformative “Oopsie! Something went wrong. We’re sorry :(”
