CrowdStrike tells Windows users how to fix blue screen error after catastrophic IT outage

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CrowdStrike tells Windows users how to fix blue screen error after catastrophic IT outage
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The tech giant has offered workaround steps.

The International IT outage has hits UK’s transport, banking and broadcasting infrastructure Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has issued a statement telling Microsoft users how to fix the blue screen error that is appearing following a major global IT outage. The tech giant has been named in relation to an unprecedented outage impacting airports, news organisations, train lines and other big companies who use their system across the globe.

To do that it downloads a piece of software called an “agent” to every machine. This monitors the PC and reports back problems. ‘This agent included a so called system file that means it is deeply embedded in the operating system. This update was corrupted in some way so that as the PC tries to boot it comes across the corrupted file and can’t proceed – it puts up the so called Blue Screen of Death.

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