19-07-2024, 04:03 PM
Let's be clear: This is NOT an "Internet crash".
None of the internet's infrastructure or performance is affected.
What has happened is the CrowdStrike, a supplier of security s/w mainly to corporates, issued a faulty patch which causes some users' machines to enter a "death loop" of continual reboots.
i.e. this is an end-user infrastructure issue, not in any way an internet issue.
Oh, and the only reason that Windows machines are affected is nothing to do with Windows or Microsoft, it's only that the faulty AV product is one that is used on Windows machines and like all AV products regardless of operating system, it requires very low level access, hence the damage that "getting it wrong" can cause. It'd probably be worse if it was a Unix AV product as most of the websites in the world run on Unix servers.
None of the internet's infrastructure or performance is affected.
What has happened is the CrowdStrike, a supplier of security s/w mainly to corporates, issued a faulty patch which causes some users' machines to enter a "death loop" of continual reboots.
i.e. this is an end-user infrastructure issue, not in any way an internet issue.
Oh, and the only reason that Windows machines are affected is nothing to do with Windows or Microsoft, it's only that the faulty AV product is one that is used on Windows machines and like all AV products regardless of operating system, it requires very low level access, hence the damage that "getting it wrong" can cause. It'd probably be worse if it was a Unix AV product as most of the websites in the world run on Unix servers.
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