Re: Crowdstrike fiasco

On Sun, 21 Jul 2024 11:11:41 +0200, Rob van der Putten <rob@sput.nl>
wrote:

On 20/07/2024 09:06, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

CrowdStrike’s security products cover Mac and Linux clients, too. But it
was only the Windows one that got screwed up.

>
The problem isn't CrowdStrike. Or even Windows. The problem is
unattended automatic updates.

That is indeed a problem, and not just with corporate users.

Some years ago I was about to leave a b&b in a faraway town to go on
the next stage of my journey. I needed to be out of the room in ten
minutes, but I thought that give me enough time to check my email
before I left, by three hours later I was still waiting for it to
finish downloading and installing Service Pack 3.

I cursed Microsoft more on that day than on any other. So the fault is
Windows. Unattended automatic updates are a feature of Windows. There
may be a way of turning it off, but that is quite hard t find.




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