Microsoft Outage: CrowdStrike’s Immediate Solution For Blue Screen Of Death And Service Restoration Timeline
Microsoft Outage: CrowdStrike’s Immediate Solution for Blue Screen of Death and Service Restoration Timeline.
Microsoft Outage: Discover the latest on the global Microsoft outage caused by a CrowdStrike update, resulting in Blue Screen of Death issues.
Learn CrowdStrike’s temporary fix, the reason behind the problem, and when services are expected to be restored.
Crowd strike’s advice to users; do this work quickly, and know when the services will be restored.
There was chaos all over the world today due to the shutdown of Microsoft services. Work in all the companies that depend on the services of the tech giant was halted on Friday.
This problem came due to a defect in Microsoft’s cloud services.
Due to Microsoft’s global outage, computer systems of businesses, financial companies, airlines, banks, and other emergency services around the world were shut down.
In fact, due to this outage, computers running on Microsoft’s operating system are restarting automatically.
This problem is commonly known as the Blue Screen of Death, which is seen due to a bug in the operating system.
According to tech experts, the Blue Screen of Death problem has come due to the ‘Crowdstrike’ update. Crowdstrike is a cyber security platform that provides cloud server security solutions to companies.
Microsoft Outage: What did CrowdStrike say about this outage?
CrowdStrike, a company that provides cloud server security solutions to Microsoft, says that the reason for the Microsoft outage is not any security flaw or cyber attack.
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said in a post written on X that this problem has occurred due to the recent update released for Windows hosts.
Repairing crashed systems is difficult.
Most of the systems that crashed after the CrowdStrike update are completely shut down. Or they are restarting.
Repairing such completely shut-down systems will be challenging. CrowdStrike has given a solution for computers that are restarting repeatedly.
What is the solution?
CrowdStrike has given a manual solution for users facing the Blue Start of Death problem.
Step 1 – First of all, users have to boot their Windows computer in Safe Mode or WRE.
Step 2 – After this, they have to go to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike.
Step 3 – Here you have to search for a file named “C-00000291*.sys”.
Step 4 – Now you have to boot your computer normally.
This solution released by CrowdStrike is temporary. Microsoft and CrowdStrike will soon release a fix for this problem.
This is a temporary fix. CrowdStrike and Microsoft will likely release a proper fix after some time.
Why did the problem arise?
Users around the world have faced this problem due to the CrowdStrike update. Windows 10 users are facing massive outages due to the CrowdStrike update globally.
Due to this, PCs are getting stuck on the recovery screen. Many users on social media have also shared pictures of their screens, which were stuck on the recovery page.
When will Microsoft services be restored? Nothing can be said about this at the moment. Work is being done on it.
What has happened so far
The owners of SpaceX and X have reacted to the Microsoft outage. They said that everything is closed. But X is on. While replying to a user, he has also called the antivirus a virus.
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz wrote on X that this is not a cyber attack. Work is being done with the customers affected by this outage. It has been identified and resolved. Full news
On the global outage, Ashwini Vaishnav informed us that it has not affected the NIC network. Ashwini Vaishnav shared a post related to this on social media X.
It was written in the post that the cause of this outage has been identified and updates have been released to solve the problem. A technical advisory is being issued by CERT related to this outage.
