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I have flagged this because it is wrong, and there is no other way to kick it off the front page. Finding a file full of zeroes on a broken computer does not m

• snowwrestler 2y ago
  Finally confirmed by CrowdStrike themselves: https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/tech-analysis-channel-file-may-contain-null-bytes/ https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/tech-analysis-channel-file-...
• execveat 2y ago
  CrowdStrike does this trick where it replaces the file (being transferred over a network socket) with zeroes if it matches the malware signature. Assuming that these are the malware signature files themselves, a match wouldn't be surprising.
  • bombcar 2y ago
    CrowStrike foot gunning itself would be amusing, if expected.
    • kristjansson 2y ago
      Far and away the most entertaining of the possible root causes.
  • tsavo 2y ago
    This actually makes the most sense, and would help explain how the error didn't occur during testing (in good faith, I assume it was tested). In testing, the dev may have worked from their primary to deploy the update to a series of secondary drives, then sequential performed a test boot from each secondary drive configured for each supported OS version. A shortcut/quick way to test that would've bypassed how their product updates in customer environments, also bypassing checks their software may have performed (in this case, overwriting their own file's contents).
• dang 2y ago
  Ah thanks. I've made the title questionable now.