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How to fix CrowdStrike BSODs in three minutes — fix requires manual changes, but they are simple


Eight steps to get you back on track.

Users across the globe have been impacted by the infamous Blue Screen of Death (BSoD), triggered by CrowdStrike’s update of its Falcon Sensor application. An application designed to protect your machines from malicious threats is now the source of one of the largest outages in recent memory. The official fix, as detailed below, comes from CrowdStrike and effectively sees us regressing the update to a previous working state.

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