VN Raju

Founder @ GenuineScan. Visit for protecting your products from counterfeits

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I wanted to summarize my tweets and replies to the Crowdstrike outage for anyone interested

This is the screenshot of a stack trace of the crash being shared on X.

The faulting driver in the stack trace is csagent.sys.

Now, Crowdstrike has got two mini filter drivers registered with Microsoft (for signing and allocation of altitude).

1) csagent.sys - Altitude (321410)
This altitude falls within the range for Anti-Virus filters.
2) im.sys - Altitude (80680)
This altitude falls within the range for access control drivers.

So, it is clear that the driver causing the crash is their AV driver, csagent.sys.

The workaround that CrowdStrike has given is to delete C-00000291*.sys files from the directory:
C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\CrowdStrike\

These files being suggested to be deleted are not driver files (.sys files) but probably some kind of virus definition database files.

The reason they name these files with the .sys extension is possibly to leverage Windows System File Checker tool's ability to restore back deleted system files.

This seems to be a workaround and the actual fix might be done in their driver, csagent.sys and the fix will be rolled out later.

Anyone having access a Falcon endpoint might see a change in the timestamp of the driver csagent.sys when the actual fix rolls out.

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@JonBuildsHQ Let’s connect. Here’s my SaaS : https://t.co/OnyBqTt2GI

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@SaitejaChallap1 @ayushtweetshere Hi Sai,
Could you tell me what kind of legal entity did you establish (Pvt limited or something else) to get paid from clients outside of India. And how do you take payments from the foreign clients (the platform you use)?

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@Franc0Fernand0 @invertCucurella Stunner got stunned by an Italian!

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@catsareblessing That’s the bird watching sound…the feathered kind.

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@Toxicity_______ Basic etiquette missing! First ask and only if the owner allows, then park your vehicle inside his property.
Gate locked nahin tha to iska ye matlab nahin hai ki tum gate khol ke apni gaadi park kar lo! Aur jab owner ne object kiya to bahane banane lagi

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@Vijay456V60026 Praveen Amre?

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@Jvm_Manoj Dennis Lille’s

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@Jvm_Manoj Those whiskers are an instant giveaway.
That is Merv Hughes.

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@FeiyanXie Food inspector?

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@SarcasmSevak Here’s to the ones that we got!
Cheers to the wish you were here, but you’re not ’Cause the drinks bring back all the memories Of everything we’ve been through!

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@RonnieFieg If you are interested in a solution to prevent counterfeits @ Kith then have a look @ https://t.co/OnyBqTt2GI

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Rush Hour 3 (2007) #movie #films #christucker #jackiechan #rushhour #fun... https://t.co/3Qav08GXoa via @YouTube

This is probably one of the funniest dialogue sequence in a Hollywood movie!

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@yunta_tsai There was something unmatched about TinTin and Astrix comics!

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@Cynthia1227494 Diego Maradona

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@hicasamadim 13

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@inHighburyN5 Dennis Bergkamp had some of that Johan Cruyff flair!

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@PhilosophyAges @DivineManhood @grok B. She killed the woman and stole her bag.

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@ratnagiri31 @nareshbahrain @chiragbarjatya This is what my mom told me as a kid (so take it with a pinch of salt 😉): cockroaches eat it for the sweet, milky taste and die a day or two later. Somehow the dying ones scare off the rest and you won’t see roaches for years. Oddly, not even dead ones.

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@nareshbahrain @chiragbarjatya What I meant was that most South Indians do know about this magic concoction!

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@martinmrmar @readswithravi I read “Carrie”, “Cuzo” and “Christine” when I was a kid!