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the driver in question was tested and passed WHQL. CrowdStrike included functionality in the driver to interpret a downloadable file (similar to an antivirus s
by efitz 2y ago
the driver in question was tested and passed WHQL. CrowdStrike included functionality in the driver to interpret a downloadable file (similar to an antivirus signature file). The file in the problematic update was malformed, and the CrowdStrike driver did not handle this case properly; Windows was unable to continue given the exception in question[1].
No operating system can guarantee that a driver will never cause the machine to crash. This wasn’t Microsoft’s fault.
[1] https://youtu.be/wAzEJxOo1ts?si=WZC1fq2Vro8K9vqS https://youtu.be/wAzEJxOo1ts?si=WZC1fq2Vro8K9vqS