Fix for Crowd strike Windows Blue Screen of Death Error (BSOD)

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..

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






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