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[–] trompete@hexbear.net 46 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Managers all over the world gave snakeoil salesmen Crowdstrike deep deep access to their Windows computers, so they can "protect" them from hackers. These managers are either stupid and/or covering their asses, so in case they get hacked, they can say "See I bought this Crowdstrike crap, like everybody else, so I did my best!".

Well Crowdstrike just shit the bed and pushed an update on all the computers and they are just in a crash-reboot-crash-reboot loop, and you manually need to sit in front of the computer to fix that. This is probably the most computers anyone has ever crashed.

[–] I_CAST_BEAM_OF_BATS_I_CAST_BOLT_OF_BATS@hexbear.net 34 points 5 months ago (2 children)

more hard proof most security software is malware

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 13 points 5 months ago

Love starting my work machine up and watching our security software keep my processor at 99% utilization for about half an hour before calming down

[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Which would you use? Kaspersky?

[–] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

windows defender is fine for most cases

[–] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 23 points 5 months ago

data-laughing

oh that is glorious ! So the Most Surplus Labour and Freetime sucking companies got Punished by a exactly this "Crowdstrike , giving all the employees a day of ... God does not always speak in riddels