Crowd Strike and the FBI

[Mark]

Crowd Strike is the company the FBI trusted to determine what was relevant and what wasn't on the Hildabeast's laptop a few years ago.

The same Crowd Strike is responsible for all of the destruction caused to Microsoft systems and devices today.

I am currently on hold with my company's technology helpdesk because my corporate laptop will not boot. It is getting the blue screen of death. It seems that everybody in the company with a Windows 11 device is having the same issue. I got my Windows 11 update two weeks ago.

[Sangersteve]

I've heard you shouldn't put all your eggs in one basket.

[Mark]

The solution they've published is to boot into safe mode and delete a file that actually has "crowdstrike" in the name.

My problem is that the laptop is encrypted, and a security string is required in order to boot into safe mode. I don't have that string. I'm hoping the help desk will. The first help desk I called directed me to a second help desk. I moved from 21st in the phone queue to 14th, and then after 38 minutes, the system hung up on me. I've called back in, and I now sit 18th in the queue.

Interestingly enough, we had a conference call this morning on Microsoft Teams. I was able to dial into the meeting on my phone. I guess MS Teams hasn't been affected by the attack.

[Mark]

After two hours on the phone (mostly on hold), I am up and running again. The fix was to boot into safe mode, run the command prompt as admin, and delete the offending file. That file was in a crowdstrike folder.

I had to use bit locker in order to get into safe mode. My bit locker code was generated by running my corporate ID and the laptop's service tag ID through an algorithm.

Per the guy I talked to, crowdstrike was able to put it's poison into Microsoft's automatic update site. Supposedly, that's all repaired now, but each infected device will have to be repaired one by one.

I urge anyone using any Windows based device to go into settings and turn off all updates until we are certain all the crowdstrike bullshit has been eliminated.

[zoomzoomklunk]

Done.....Thanks for the information
Mark.

[jellowrestling]

Done.....Thanks for the information
Mark.

Hey, good to hear from you, ZZK!

[zoomzoomklunk]

Always around enjoying the conversations.

[Mark]

Blackrock owns Crowdstrike.