v9CYKjLeia10dZpz88iU , 4 hours ago

I mean - this is just a giant test of disaster recovery plans. And while there are absolutely real-world consequences to this, the fix almost seems scriptable.

It seems like it is, I’m not responsible for any computers that had this issue, but I saw this powershell script posted on reddit for a group policy.

• Automated Workaround in Safe Mode using Group Policy

Though, I think some systems had more unique problems, I also saw different steps for repairing an Azure VM.

• Microsoft Azure VM with CrowdStrike

There were also that didn’t understand how to get around Bitlocker, and people on reddit posted solutions for that too.

• Repairing with Bitlocker

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Though, even with all of this, I was surprised that hospitals had issues. It seems like there’s other issues in deployments, and I saw some people on YC claim this was related to organizations filling checkboxes for regulatory requirements. That they likely had this software because they were concerned with failing an audit. I don’t know if there’s truth to that, but I am surprised there wasn’t more redundancy in critical infrastructure.

edit: I want to stress again that I’m not responsible for any computers that had this issue and haven’t tried to use any of the above solutions myself. I’ve just noticed lots of people still commenting on reddit not understanding that they can fix this issue with one of these 3.