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Some bad code just broke a billion Windows machines (www.youtube.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike pushed an update that caused millions of Windows computers to enter recovery mode, triggering the blue screen of death. Learn ...

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (3 children)

There is no learning, companies just move to different antivirus. The new hotness, the cycle repeats over and over until the new antivirus does this same shit. Look at McAfee in 2010, in fact the CEO of Crowdstrike was the CTO of McAfee then. That easily took down millions of windows XP machines.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

in fact the CEO of Crowdstrike was the CTO of McAfee then

The hero of Linux adoption then. All hail - what's the name of that guy?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This isn't the Windows L you think it is. This can and has happened on Linux. It's a Crowdstrike/Bad corp IT issue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I know, but the whole culture of using such things is Windows-centered.