farcaster@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 5 months agoWindows PCs crashing worldwide due to CrowdStrike issuemashable.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up163arrow-down11cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
arrow-up162arrow-down1external-linkWindows PCs crashing worldwide due to CrowdStrike issuemashable.comfarcaster@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 5 months agomessage-square6fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
minus-squareBeaver@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down6·5 months agoThis why windows 11 needing an online account to sign up is a bad idea
minus-squareJohnnyCanuck@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up12·5 months agoTurns out this is a CrowdStrike issue though, so unrelated in this case.
minus-squarelmaydev@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·5 months agoIt’s a third party piece of software causing the issues though.
minus-squaredrcabbage@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoCrowdstrike has a lot of internal control of your machine in order to do things like hook into the processes you are running to observe any malicious activity. It makes sense that a bug could bring the whole system down.
minus-squareBuffalox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·5 months agoYep, the only real functions of that is copy protection, and Microsoft gathering data.
This why windows 11 needing an online account to sign up is a bad idea
Turns out this is a CrowdStrike issue though, so unrelated in this case.
It’s a third party piece of software causing the issues though.
Crowdstrike has a lot of internal control of your machine in order to do things like hook into the processes you are running to observe any malicious activity. It makes sense that a bug could bring the whole system down.
Yep, the only real functions of that is copy protection, and Microsoft gathering data.
Or maybe just generally a bad idea…