Do you know that the McAfee PC Meltdown and the Microsoft-CrowdStrike outage have a Connection??
we will go back to 2010 - mcafee
McAfee released an antivirus update that mistakenly deleted a key Windows XP file, which caused the follwing issues:
- Endless Reboots
- No Network Access
What Exactly Happened that time?
- A false positive marked a regular Windows file, “svchost. exe,” as a virus.
- Systems showed Blue Screens and endless Shut Down.
- The problem spread quickly through a network tool called “ePolicyOrchestrator.”
solution:
- McAfee removed the Faulty update.
- McAfee provided a new definition of the virus to fix it.
Now in 2024 - crowdstrike
As Reported – Crowdstrike update contained a bug which caused the sensor to conflict with the Windows OS.
This resulted in the infamous ‘Blue Screen of Death’.
Solution:
Interesting fact:
- George Kurtz, now CEO of CrowdStrike, was McAfee’s CTO during this 2010 glitch.
- The incident was so costly that Intel bought McAfee in 2011.
Tech issues happen, but it’s all about how we handle them.
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