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WTF is CrowdStrike and why is it affecting so many people and companies? I've never heard of it before. And apparently it isn't anything relevant to all Windows users as it didn't affect any computer of any person I personally know.


Very popular corporate endpoint protection (malware detection and spyware) that runs telemetry & monitoring agents installed as kernel-mode drivers on windows. Thus if there is a crash, it crashes the entire kernel (BSOD) . And their drivers load at boot.




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