“CrowdStrike is far from the only security firm to trigger Windows crashes with a driver update. Updates to Kaspersky and even Windows’ own built-in antivirus software Windows Defender have caused similar Blue Screen of Death crashes in years past.”
“‘People may now demand changes in this operating model,’ says Jake Williams, vice president of research and development at the cybersecurity consultancy Hunter Strategy. ‘For better or worse, CrowdStrike has just shown why pushing updates without IT intervention is unsustainable.’”
And this happens the same week that Kaspersky left the U.S.
They are laughing internally right now.
Kaspersky has caused BSODs because of updates in the past as well. Hardly an AV maker hasn’t. The problem here is that Crowd Strike has captured the enterprise market in a large portion of the globe.
Oh I’m well aware. I hated deploying Kaspersky. But we switched to Crowdstrike last year and now this happened. Just a funny coincidence.
Luckily, we’re a small company and a third use Macs. The others, well, I had three PC laptop and one virtual server issues. Not too bad. We’re on the West Coast so glad I was aware of it last night when Australia got issues.