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Mr. Kevvy Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3806 Credit: 1,114,826,392 RAC: 3,319 |
I've seen quite a few posts of people asking for a copy of the file that caused all the carnage, curious as to just what it did to bring the systems down. Given that the app. is an anti-malware suite and the repair directions, it's a kernel-mode (highest-privilege) code update possibly kernel-mode driver that was not tested before deployment or accidentally released or equivalent. Their removal directions: Boot Windows into Safe Mode or the Windows Recovery Environment NOTE: Putting the host on a wired network (as opposed to WiFi) and using Safe Mode with Networking can help remediation. Navigate to the %WINDIR%\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike directory Note: On WinRE/WinPE, navigate to the Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike directory of the OS volume Locate the file matching “C-00000291*.sys” and delete it. Boot the host normally. |
Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 21289 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 |
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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36808 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Seems that those Southern, and Northern, Lights are going to put on another show. [url=Aussies turned their heads to the sky just months ago for what is usually a rare experience, but the lucky country will get another chance to witness it tonight.]Aussies turned their heads to the sky just months ago for what is usually a rare experience, but the lucky country will get another chance to witness it tonight.[/url] I'm a bit too far north to see the display. Cheers. |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13855 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
Still got a bunch of floppies that you need to use every now & then? If so, then this is what you need. A car wash for floppy disks. Grant Darwin NT |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36808 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Seems that those Southern, and Northern, Lights are going to put on another show.Link fixed. Cheers. |
Carlos Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 30681 Credit: 57,275,487 RAC: 157 |
NASA has a 30-minute forecast that shows you where the Aurora will be visible. |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13855 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
Seems that those Southern, and Northern, Lights are going to put on another show.Yep. It kicked off again last night. Grant Darwin NT |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 66347 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Neat pics Grant (SSSF), some would of course not say that, they would not approve, idiots. Savoir-Faire is everywhere! The T1 Trust, T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, America's First HST |
Mike Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34380 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 |
I love those pics too. With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
Scrooge McDuck Send message Joined: 26 Nov 99 Posts: 1190 Credit: 1,674,173 RAC: 54 |
Really nice pics. Thanks for posting them here. In 'regular' Aurora photos from northern arctic regions you mostly see greenish Aurora 'curtains'. The red ones are more rare. I only know that the color depends on which matter is forced to emit light energy: oxygen or nitrogen. I'm curious why in these lower latitude Aurora photographs you can only see red but not green colors. |
Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 21289 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 |
The green we see in the aurora is characteristic of oxygen, while hints of purple, blue or pink are caused by nitrogen. “We sometimes see a wonderful scarlet red colour, and this is caused by very high altitude oxygen interacting with solar particles,” |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 66347 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Very good pics, thanks, we'd never see the auroras since where I live it's either too hot or too cold at night or sometimes cloudy, normally we'd be too far away, but you never know how far south or north these lights might stretch. Savoir-Faire is everywhere! The T1 Trust, T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, America's First HST |
Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 21289 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 |
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Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3346 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
Thinking Hard Really Can Make Your 'Brain Hurt' Folks who rub their forehead and complain that a complex problem is making their brain hurt aren’t overstating things, a new review suggests. |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13855 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
Article about CrowdStrike's analysis of what went wrong. When updates are sent, it changes the location or the number of sensors to check for a potential attack. Grant Darwin NT |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22534 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
If this line is actually true: "Therefore, the attempt to access the 21st value produced an out-of-bounds memory read beyond the end of the input data array and resulted in a system crash." Several stages of inspection and testing were not properly undertaken. At the very least: A code walk of the new code would have flagged a potential problem; Running the segment of code in a sandbox and feeding it "defective" data; and doing much the same one the "sensor" side to make sure the sensors cannot send more than 20 items in their output array. Add to that, making sure that erroneous data is safely handled and flagged as such, not just take that data and either crash the system or produce wrong results. All in all a couple of very simple steps could so easily prevented this system crash. (Does that ring a bell?) Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31012 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Years ago, picked 20 because it was a huge number that never would be approached. Sounds about like Y2K and just two digits for the year. Or Unix End of Time. As to tightly integrated - they wrote a kernel driver -- code that can't crash and must catch all its errors itself. |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13855 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
Grant Darwin NT |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19401 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
Darwin award failure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tueHPHmOkU |
Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 21289 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 |
I understand arson but hot plum pudding is going a bit far. Ouch!! |
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