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- Thread starter Vince
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After almost two years, I'm back.
This week saw THE worst internet failure in history when "Crowdstrike" crippled airlines and banks all over the world. However, Crowdstrike is neither a virus nor any other form of malware--it is a security system.
What they THINK happened:
"Crowdstrike" is a very expensive security program designed for massive computer systems. It is used by several major airlines and by various US government agencies, as well as various other governments and major businesses. Very few people have it on their home computers.
Apparently, an intern at Crowdstrike made a tiny upgrade and crippled the entire system.
Yes, Windows 11 users were not affected, but neither were most home computers, because most of them don't use Crowdstrike.It started as a joke. Jubilant users of Windows 11 (and Linux) posted triumphantly that they had survived the CrowdStrike attack unharmed.
It was funny because they didn't realize that it wasn't an attack--it was a technical glitch, and you were only affected if you had CrowdStrike installed on your computer.
But COULD Windows 11 protect you if you had CrowdStrike installed? The only major difference between Windows 11 and Windows 10 is 11's superior security. WOULD Windows 11 have protected you if you had CrowdStrike installed?Defender comes free with Windows 10 & 11. A variety of tests by different groups always rate Defender in the top ten, while they keep switching the other ones around. I have never seen CrowdStrike in the top ten, and had never heard of it until it caused a world-wide disaster.
While most anti-virus programs are designed for individual computers, CrowdStrike is designed for world-wide networks that use a variety of different computers and operating systems at the same time. And while your anti-malware software is installed on your computer, CrowdStrike is stored on heavily-secured servers that are immune to any attacks--unless, of course, they install an untested upgrade that ruins everything.Did you know that your monitor, by itself, is a computer? It has its own CPU and its own RAM chips.
Your computer has several other pieces of hardware that are actually mini-computers--they have their own software programs that tell them how to operate, and they are not part of the Windows operating system. And your Windows anti-virus program is often unable to protect them.
IF your computer meets the full requirements of Windows 11, those mini-computers are protected.
Many people frown on Win11, I happen to love it not much of an issue with any of my rigs running it.
I am using Win 11 pro for all.
Only issue would be win explorer and 6 HDDs plus M.2, sometimes I cant even open explorer and it crashes. I am using Windows storage pool so that may be the issue.The CrowdStrike outage cost America's largest companies $5.4 billion. This is in addition to foreign companies and smaller US companies. CrowdStrike's greatest efforts have involved getting the big companies back online.
But what about the people who have CrowdStrike on their home computers? CrowdStrike blocks their computers from re-starting, so they can't be fixed online. Major companies have computer experts who can follow the complicated procedure for restoring service.
Individual home computers? They should have stuck with Defender.
This is pretty much why it is not a good idea to use the onboard antivirus/security software that comes with Windows. I have been using Bitdefender for years and have not had an issue. It is also a good idea to get a hardware firewall in addition to security software.Time to rack it up!
Massachusetts Institute of Technology has published a way for CrowdStrike home users to repair their computers. You have to start up your rig in Safe Mode and then go into your system to delete the update.
And, we might as well tell the truth: because the update only affected the Windows operating system. Mac and Linux computers with CrowdStrike were not affected.
But why is the software called "crowdstrike"? What crowds are getting "struck"?So how is Crowdstrike doing?
Its stock is now 35% below its peak (ten days before the disaster), despite rising 4% in the last two weeks.
As of August 14, 2024, 99% of Crowdstrike computers are operating normally.
Analysts agree that Crowdstrike is a very successful anti-malware system, and most regard the incident (the worst world-wide computer systems failure in history) as a fluke. Defenders point out that even during the crisis, there were no security breaches.