The IT Nerd

This is not a good look for cybersecurity company Crowdstrike.

A bad update for the CrowdStrike Falcon antivirus product installed on Windows PCs has taken down millions of PC globally. I am hearing stories of flights being grounded, Sky News being taken off air for a few hours, and retailers being unable to sell anything.

In short, this is extraordinary bad.

This is made worse by the CEO of CrowStrike who decided to Tweet. This Tweet was not a good idea:

The problem with this Tweet is that he completely failed to apologize for basically taking down the entire planet because of a screw up with his product. If I used his product, I’d be looking to move to some other antivirus product. Because this Tweet to be frank, sucks.

There is a workaround that was posted to Reddit. But it will have to be done on a PC by PC basis. Which means that companies could be down for days. Which is of course bad.

I’ll be watching this situation and posting updates when it warrants an update. But this situation is bad and likely won’t improve for a while. And when this is resolved, CrowdStrike will have a whole lot of explaining to do.

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