This morning (July 19), CrowdStrike anti-virus software caused Windows computer systems world-wide to crash. ZeroHedge has the same story.
Color me very amused. I quit using Windows years ago.
P. S. RT has a story about CrowdStrike, former FBI Executive Assistant Director Shawn Henry and Russiagate. Huh, imagine that, you put corrupt slimeballs in charge and you get screwups like this.
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It's kept me and Mine out of trouble for years.
Years ago, one of my collateral duties at an engineering firm was network admin. We used Kaspersky exclusively on the server and our workstations and were very happy with it. Our internal network server ran Novell NetWare, which we stopped updating with Version 6.5, Service Pack 8, when Bill Gates' marketing machine drove them out of business, almost. We continued to apply our own updates and some others available through open source (as all of NetWare was always open source) for another 10 years. We also continued to run GroupWise 6.5 for all email. Both NetWare and GroupWise were, in my experience, far superior to anything available from Microsoft and were unquestionably the most stable products ever. I could have practically walled up the server room if it were not for the need to get at the hardware and telephone systems. We once went about 20 months without even a restart of the server.
Watching all traffic on a daily basis over the almost 18 years running the combination, we experienced a single data breach of a single staff email account with the attempted data extraction shut down because of the file size restriction. The user's password was "password". ONE breach, and there were usually between 10 and 100 attempts per day over that time. Zero malware and zero viruses.
I've been retired for some time now but during my last year we migrated to a cloud-based file server (operating system unknown) and some version of Outlook that I forget.
Kaspersky was the real deal though.
*cough* Boeing *cough*
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