Comment on Microsoft points finger at the EU for not being able to lock down Windows

woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• 30p87@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  a Microsoft employee

  You’re talking about good ol’ Lenny like he isn’t the author of the most used init and utility system as well as PulseAudio.

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  • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I know who that is and he’s also a Microsoft employee these days which makes this a funny sequence of statements:

    “EU bad because they made us open up Windows to 3rd party anti-virus vendors. Oh, btw, the fully open Linux operating system can cope with such a problem if properly configured. Here’s the documentation to make that configuration.”

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    • 30p87@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Not only that, he specifically attacked “commercial operating systems” - it’s anyone’s guess which he meant - for not implementing it.

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• 800XL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I don’t know enough about Windows 10/11, but aren’t they supposed to boot into a menu thet allows you to pick the last known good configuration before it evens boots to the gui?

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  • kevindqc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The problem is with a specific file on the disk, not a misconfiguration

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  • jonc211@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Apparently it’s because CrowdStrike installed their device driver as one that must start when Windows starts.

    Explained here: youtu.be/wAzEJxOo1ts?feature=shared&t=675

    I’ve linked to the specific time where he explains that issue, but tbh the whole video is worth watching.

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    • christopher@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I don’t use Windows these days but I still enjoy Dave’s channel

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  • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s been a while since I had such a massive problem under Windows but the last time you could try to restore one of the last backups and usually that failed because Windows restore points are/were crap.

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    • Damage@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah we tried that where I work (I’m not IT) and it failed. Safe mode didn’t work either 'cause it couldn’t authenticate the user for login as the server was down as well.

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