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The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) issued a critical alert on Friday, July 19, regarding a widespread outage affecting Microsoft Windows systems due to a recent update in the CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor. This outage affects several international and domestic operations, including the stock market, flight services, corporate offices, IT companies, Airport work, etc.Also Read | Microsoft Windows Outage: Operations at International Airlines, Banks and Media Outlets Affected After Crowdstrike Update Causes Blue Screen Across the World.The advisory released by CERT-In shows how numerous Windows hosts equipped with the CrowdStrike agent have encountered system crashes, causing the infamous "Blue Screen of Death" (BSOD). The root cause has been identified as a faulty update within the Falcon Sensor.CrowdStrike has taken steps to revert the global outage that impacted many systems worldwide. To address this issue, CERT-In has provided a temporary workaround involving manual file deletion in the Windows system directory. However, users are strongly advised to monitor updates from CrowdStrike closely for a more permanent solution.Follow the Guidelines Issued by CERT-In:* Boot Windows into Safe Mode or the Windows Recovery Environment* Navigate to the C: WindowsSystem32driversCrowdStrike directory* Locate the file matching "C-00000291*-sys", and delete it.* Boot the host normally.Also, users are advised to check the latest updates from the Crowd Strike portal.

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