Blue Screen of Death’: Windows Users Face Massive Outage After New Crowdstrike Update – All You Need to Know
Windows 10 users around the globe are experiencing significant outages due to a recent Crowdstrike update, causing PCs to get stuck on the recovery screen. This issue has impacted airports, companies, banks, and government offices worldwide.
Social media is flooded with images of screens stuck on the recovery page, displaying the message, “It looks like Windows didn’t load correctly. If you’d like to restart and try again, choose Restart my PC below.”
Crowdstrike has acknowledged the issue on their support page, linking the crashes to problems with the Falcon Sensor. They stated, “CrowdStrike is aware of reports of crashes on Windows hosts related to the Falcon Sensor. Symptoms include hosts experiencing a bugcheck/blue screen error related to the Falcon Sensor. Our Engineering teams are actively working to resolve this issue, and there is no need to open a support ticket.”
Netizens React to Blue Screen Issues on Windows
Reports from users worldwide indicate that the Blue Screen issue is not confined to a specific region. One user on X mentioned, “Something super weird happening right now: just been called by several totally different media outlets in the last few minutes, all with Windows machines suddenly BSoD’ing (Blue Screen of Death). Anyone else seen this?”
A user from Malaysia posted on Reddit, stating, “Malaysia here, 70% of our laptops are down and stuck in boot. HQ from Japan ordered a company-wide shutdown. Someone’s getting fireblasted for this lmao.”
Another Reddit user suggested a potential workaround, “Update: Can confirm the below stops the BSOD Loop. Go into CMD from recovery options. Change to C:\Windows\System32\Drivers. Rename Crowdstrike to Crowdstrike_Fucked. Start Windows. It’s not great, but at least that means we can get some Windows back.”
Stay tuned for more updates as this situation develops and Crowdstrike works towards a resolution.
