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Cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike pushed an update that caused millions of Windows computers to enter recovery mode, triggering the blue screen of death. Learn ...

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[–] MeekerThanBeaker 44 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Probably includes a bunch of virtual machines.

[–] Joelk111 21 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Yeah, our VMs completely died at work. Has to set up temporary stuff on hardware we had laying around today. Was kinda fun, but stressful haha.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Could you just revert VMs to a snapshot before the update? Or do you not take periodic snapshots? You could probably also mount the VM's drive on the host and delete the relevant file that way.

[–] Joelk111 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yeah, like the other person said, corporate IT is responsible for that stuff. I guess they're working through the weekend to try to get it fixed.

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