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Isn't a Windows BSOD the equivalent of a kernel panic? I don't understand how this is CrowdStrike's fault. Vanilla userspace operations shouldn't cause a kernel panic--that's a bug in the OS, not a bug in some user software. If anything, we should be blaming Windows here?

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> Vanilla userspace operations shouldn't cause a kernel panic...

The component Crowdstrike says you need to remove to restore functionality is a ".sys" file. That's a kernel-mode driver. The fault is happening on the kernel side.

CrowdStrike is not a vanilla userspace program, it hooks deeply into the operating system.

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