• naticus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    2 months ago

    Tell me you have zero fucking clue what actually happened without telling me you had no clue.

    • TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz
      32·
      2 months ago

      CrowdStrike is a company that sells security software. You can only have this issue if you’ve installed their program. It is highly misleading to headline anything about this as a “Microsoft” or “Windows” issue

      • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17·
        2 months ago

        To elaborate, CrowdStrike’s target audience is commercial and government entities, not individuals. Most individual users’ machines were not affected. Individuals are generally using something like Norton, Kaspersky, AVG, or just Defender on its own.

        • CompostMaterial@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          2 months ago

          Yeah, that’s the funniest part to me. The vast majority of people, world wide, had no idea CrowdStrike even existed. Only those in It in commercial or government would have possibly known who they were. Now the world’s introduction to CrowdStrike is it setting everything on fire. Talk about bad PR.

          Not that it will really matters, I figure that the lawsuits for damages will be in the billions if not trillions. Their best bet will be to declare bankruptcy and rebrand under a different name.

          • superkret@feddit.org
            3·
            2 months ago

            Their CEO used to be with Kaspersky. Then they pushed an update that crashed lots of computers, went down the drain and were bought off. So the CEO founded Crowdstrike.

            Protip: Don’t buy security software from whatever company he’s currently CEO of.

      • SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        2 months ago

        Ahh, thank you! I knew the Crowdstrike issue, but I was confused when folks kept saying it had affected “all Windows computers”.

        Thank you!