OT: Crowdstrike security down affecting Windows ops

[Guy Larose]

As dead as fried trout.

Take the L and move on, you're wrong sparky.

 

[SOLR]

I'm too old for this computer shit.

I fax my posts.

Dude stop spamming your morse code emitter after your 2nd coffee.

I W.A.N.T O.A.T. M.I.L.K STOP

 

[SOLR]

 

[Skip Bayless]

Just preparing you for November.

 

[overlords]

Just preparing you for November.

 

[pepperMonkey]

Someone should have told ASUS, NVIDIA, INTEL, etc because they are still cranking out hardware. I know tons of people that still game on desktops and do new builds.

Lol, "LINUX" desktop is dead. There was some hype and interest in the early 2000's but no one talks about it now (or maybe that's because that was the period in life where I was the most nerdy so it caught my interest and it was always dead in reality...)

 

[Guy Larose]

Lol, "LINUX" desktop is dead. There was some hype and interest in the early 2000's but no one talks about it now (or maybe that's because that was the period in life where I was the most nerdy so it caught my interest and it was always dead in reality...)

Ugh, I never mentioned Linux....

 

[pepperMonkey]

Ugh, I never mentioned Linux....

The OP that you responded to was talking Linux desktop...

Sooooo, anyone else having issues today? Blue Screen of Death on all computers, and IT is like, don't restart anything!

3 Day weekend? Please? Currently, sitting here playing on my phone

Sorry, IT bros! Good luck.

Lol, Southwestern Airlines didn't get affected by the BSOD...as they are supposedly still running on Windows 3.1

 

[MasterD]

What are you talking about? this is non-sense, I own a tech business for 10 years and i have many systems running win xp on the internet, mostly win 7 though. We're talking about 1000s of stations. I also have a background in networking. This is complete bull.

The video you posted is the most bs video i have ever seen in my life, it cuts through so many things. We have no idea what he did in the background, what sites he clicked on etc. This is just scarecrow for noobs.

I can show you other videos, with no cutted sequences or lagging framerate that demonstrates windows XP is the most clean windows you can get after a fresh install with next to no traffic.

On the other hand windows 10, 11 and for sure the following windows versions come embedded with tons of tracking software that are hooked 24/7 to websites of compagnies no one has even heard of and its not just a few... its a huge list of domains tracking you the moment you hook internet to your PC without browsing anything.

The only effective way to be protected is to have good legit ad blockers, to never click on ads and avoid sites you don't know. If you feel adventurous you can setup segmented networks within your network and configure it where traffic goes out but doesn't come in. You can easely do this with 2 routers, one main and a secondary which you setup to hide the network you serf the internet. You can also setup a windows server and manage your network's traffic this way as well while hiding your stations... there's VPNs you can setup as well..

There's so many better things you can do to be protected than buying into the crap of the corporations pushing you to update their junk.

If you don't even know about VLANs, I'm glad I'm not a client of your "tech business".

 

[Bombshell11]

If you don't even know about VLANs, I'm glad I'm not a client of your "tech business".

What do you think is a vlan?

And what kind of answer is this?:
"Oh i am glad i am not your customer because boo boo boo..."

Sounds like someone has some serious entitlement issues.

#1 no one asked you anything
And
#2 i wouldn't even consider to sell you anything. Your emails would be ignored or we'll be too busy for you.

No one needs bad clients and those who take them are either starving or bad at their jobs.

 

[MarkovsKnee]

The OP that you responded to was talking Linux desktop...


Lol, Southwestern Airlines didn't get affected by the BSOD...as they are supposedly still running on Windows 3.1

No joke. My work just recently upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 10 on computers.

 

[OnTheRun]

What do you think is a vlan?

And what kind of answer is this?:
"Oh i am glad i am not your customer because boo boo boo..."

Sounds like someone has some serious entitlement issues.

#1 no one asked you anything
And
#2 i wouldn't even consider to sell you anything. Your emails would be ignored or we'll be too busy for you.

No one needs bad clients and those who take them are either starving or bad at their jobs.

I mean... You said a bunch of pretty perplexing things in that single paragraph, so you can't blame him.

Claiming ad blockers are the only effective protection is ridiculous.
L3 Segmentation is a thing alright, but you need a pretty good reason to go down that route over L2. And you didn't provide any reason at all.
Using "Windows Server" to do traffic shaping,... Wait, what? why?

 

[Bombshell11]

I mean... You said a bunch of pretty perplexing things in that single paragraph, so you can't blame him.

Not sure what was perplexing, everything is from experience and it is how I run things personally.

Claiming ad blockers are the only effective protection is ridiculous.

This is what i said: The only effective way to be protected is to have good legit ad blockers, to never click on ads and avoid sites you don't know. You kind of skipped the last 2 very important steps.

L3 Segmentation is a thing alright, but you need a pretty good reason to go down that route over L2. And you didn't provide any reason at all.
Using "Windows Server" to do traffic shaping,... Wait, what? why?

I wasn't trying to give a course on Networking?

 

[CharleyHorse]

it apparently affected flights also

In all fairness to Crowdstrike, is there anything that doesn't affect flights?