Yep... Now don't get me wrong. I still like crowdstrike. But yeah this was a bad year for them...
TBH, I donāt get why itās so popular, BitDefender performs much better in all the industry testing Iāve seen, especially when it comes to new malware/ransomware that doesnāt have known existing signatures.
Crowdstrike works at the kernel level. It's also incredibly lightweight and granular. Bit defender and others like it are pretty bloated anymore (though none as bloated as norton). Now the drawback is that it works at kernel level and you saw the result of a bad update. Though that's very rare. Now to be honest, Windows defender is ranked pretty high these days.... My issue though is are the false positives with that and others. Happens too often.
So I went out and bought my own laptop for work since I got sick of my managed work laptopā¦. To the point my quality of life was starting to suffer. After getting windows 11 installed with a local (non-MS account) user with local admin rights, removing all the general bloat, removing copilot everywhere I could, changing every setting/registry entry I could to make windows 11 feel more like a simple OS, I finally got it where I want it. BUT, then when setting up my offfice/MS 365 (or whatever theyāre calling it now) with my work account, I accidentally checked the box to allow my company to manage my computer. TERRIBLE MISTAKE. The next thing that happened was crowdstrike immediately installed. As far as I could tell, at that point, there was no way I could uninstall it - even as a local admin. Even after unchecking the box to disallow my company managing my computer.
Sooo, I had to start all over again.
After that, I hate crowdstrike. It just doesnāt seem right that as a local admin on a disconnected computer, I cannot remove software from my laptop.
It's not crowdstrike that does that, it's network policy that set that. In general most computers that we connect to my clients we give full local admin rights to the laptop/pc but 3 programs we don't allow to be removed are firewalls, antivirus and inventory. If you BYOC for any of my clients, we install those by default because we have to protect the network. (Guest networks are different because they're isolated)
I get the management part. What I donāt get is after I disabled company management, I still couldnāt uninstall crowdstrike without a key. Thatās the part thatās not cool.
That's done via policy during the installation using a command line switch. Even if you disable management it's too late because it was already installed with that switch. (I think /u=perm) so it forces the install using a maintenance token.
This It's really come a long way, used to replace it w/something years back, now I use it on all my Windows computers.
Many LOLs...
Lol, more like per week around here!
The kicker here - after my previous work issued laptop crashed, I had to wait 3 weeks for a new laptop because it just so happened thatās when the crowdstrike issues hit - and our IT dept couldnāt commission me a new laptop until the issues were resolved. My clients were starting to ask questions - how can you be running $70M data center projects without a laptop for 3 weeks?
Oh how I miss simple computingā¦ am I the only one that misses windows XP? I mean if I have to pick a windows version.
I agree. Although Iād gladly give up half my hobby budget if my wife would pick up similar hobbies.
I still see people online that want program manager back from Windows 3.1. There is one thing for certain in computing. Things will change. I remember my mom complaining that Apple changed the settings page on "her" iPhone without her permission.
I still run a windows XP vm locallyā¦ it runs a really old version of iTunes to share my 20-yr old catalog of music and videos to Apple devices around the house.
Somebody else has joined the pineapple pizza discussion today
'alexa good morningā
āGood morning. Here's something to think about next time you munch on a Hawaiian pizza. Did you know that pineapples don't originate from Hawaii? In fact, they were planted there for the first time on this day in 1813.ā
Unclear - does he mean before or after scattering?