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Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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...

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (28 children)

Here's the fix: (or rather workaround, released by CrowdStrike) 1)Boot to safe mode/recovery 2)Go to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike 3)Delete the file matching "C-00000291*.sys" 4)Boot the system normally

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

Not that easy when it's a fleet of servers in multiple remote data centers. Lots of IT folks will be spending their weekend sitting in data center cages.

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