Starting July 19th 5 AM UTC, users worldwide reported Blue screen of Death for Windows machines. Many organizations and some top tech influencers like Troy Hunt (Creator of haveibeenpwned.com) posted about BlueScreen of Death (BSOD) on his Twitter account. There have been many postings about this on Reddit also..
Something super weird happening right now: just been called by several totally different media outlets in the last few minutes, all with Windows machines suddenly BSoD’ing (Blue Screen of Death). Anyone else seen this? Seems to be entering recovery mode: pic.twitter.com/DxdLyA9BLA
— Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) July 19, 2024
Many users reported about this on Reddit and Twitter also! It seems Banks, Airports and Shops are down across Australia, NewZeland and almost all the countries are affected by this Crowd Strike update which has caused this issue!
Solutions & WorkArounds for BSOD
CrowdStrike Sensor Update:
According to their support portal, “CrowdStrike Engineering has identified a content deployment related to this issue and reverted those changes”. If your system is updated and running they would have already pushed updates..
Workaround as per CrowdStrike:
Step 1: Boot Windows into Safe Mode or the Windows Recovery Environment
Step 2: Navigate to the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike directory
Step 3: Locate the file matching “C-00000291*.sys”, and delete it.
Step 4: Boot the host normally.
Other Workarounds
Renaming the Crowd Strike folder:
Step 1: Boot into safe mode
Step 2: Rename the Crowd Strike folder to something else
Step 3: Reboot the system again