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widespread Windows system failuresTheregister
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Antivirus maker CrowdStrike released an update to its widely used Falcon platform that caused Microsoft Windows machines around the world to crash last week .
CrowdStrike says a logic error triggered the crash and blue screen (BSOD) on impacted systems.
Microsoft said 8.5 million Windows machines failed. CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz has just been asked to testify before Congress .
CrowdStrike 's Falcon software, he says, has two components: a digitally signed, Microsoft -approved driver called CSAgent.sys.
The driver gets terminated for performing what's known as a bad pointer dereference.
It tried to access memory from the address 0x000000000000009c, which didn't exist.
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