McAfee PC meltdown and Microsoft-CrowdStrike outage. Is this True?
Microsoft faced a major technical issue that affected many areas around the world. Thousands of Windows PCs were crippled by BSODs in the beginning. The issue originated with a flawed update released by cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike that caused affected computers and servers to enter a recovery boot loop, preventing proper startup.
A flawed McAfee update in 2010 that reported a similar problem known as “DAT” file version 5958 caused Windows XP computers to shut down around the world.
And, McAfee released an antivirus update that mistakenly deleted a key Windows XP file, causing endless reboots and no network access.
Then, A false positive marked a regular Windows file, “svchost. exe,” as a virus.
Systems showed blue screens and shut down.
The problem spread quickly through a network tool called “ePolicyOrchestrator”.
For a Solution, McAfee removed the faulty update. And they provided a new definition of the virus to fix it.
Now CrowdStrike’s CEO George Kurtz, was McAfee’s CTO during this 2010 blunder. The McAfee incident raised questions about the company’s operational efficiency. It cost the company a lot of money and they ended up selling to Intel, who were among those affected by the problem. Intel bought McAfee in February 2011.