IT outages are reported across the world
20-07-2024, 12:40
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Re: IT outages are reported across the world
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20-07-2024, 13:43
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Re: IT outages are reported across the world
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Contactless payments were fine at Troon which was the extent of my IT use for the day.
Does seem slightly worrying that a minor error can have such significant consequences.
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Please tell me you don’t cosplay like a PGA pro when you go to these things … Glasgow Central was full of utter tools getting trains down to Troon the other day 
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20-07-2024, 14:33
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Re: IT outages are reported across the world
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Please tell me you don’t cosplay like a PGA pro when you go to these things … Glasgow Central was full of utter tools getting trains down to Troon the other day |
Happy to confirm a hoody, shorts (since it was still warmish for Scots) and a fairly comfortable pair of trainers was my attire.
The other “official” outfit seemed to be the tracksuit of a previous Open or Ryder Cup in the last two decades.
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20-07-2024, 21:01
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Re: IT outages are reported across the world
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Yes, of course, pre-roll out testing is a given and I do not understand why this was not done for a enterprise-grade production deployment.
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I'd guess it was done, then something else went wrong during the world-wide deployment. Such as a file got corrupted during transfer, or someone accidentally published the wrong file.
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20-07-2024, 21:32
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Re: IT outages are reported across the world
quite a shocking amount of computers that were affected according to MS and that is only the ones I would suspect have telemetry on as well
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpe3zgznwjno
now also the Spammers are trying to take advantage :O
Thankfully at my work we have it only on servers which thankfully for a change isn't my responsibility so I was scot free
but I know of some ex colleagues that suffered hard
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20-07-2024, 21:39
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Re: IT outages are reported across the world
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Originally Posted by spiderplant
I'd guess it was done, then something else went wrong during the world-wide deployment. Such as a file got corrupted during transfer, or someone accidentally published the wrong file.
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Apparently not: https://twitter.com/Perpetualmaniac/...76668095754753
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20-07-2024, 22:00
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Re: IT outages are reported across the world
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That doesn't explain how it got released
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20-07-2024, 22:24
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Re: IT outages are reported across the world
I remember back in Windows 95 you could get programs to run by putting a link to the exe.
Someone did this to shutdown, so it immediately shutdown on booting
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20-07-2024, 22:43
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Originally Posted by Paul
More to the point, you would think they would check a machine still works after being updated (and rebooted) before pushing it out to anyone.
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Yes well alot of peoples dont have good judgement anymore.....
Im glad it was fixed........ I dont think Ihave ever seen so many businesses networks not working like I did on friday!! (You dont realise how many are hooked up to the internet)
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21-07-2024, 02:46
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Re: IT outages are reported across the world
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That doesn't explain how it got released
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It doesnt really explain much at all.
A "Null Pointer Exception" is very common, and easily caused (usually some sort of programming error).
In this case, the contents of the C-00000291.sys file they tell you to delete caused a crash in the code using it (csagent).
This means the error appears to be the csagent code, not the deleted file - it should handle bad data without crashing, but it didnt.
[Anyone who knows much about windows may also wonder why a file that basically seems to be data has a .sys extension, it really should not].
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21-07-2024, 04:19
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Wow I did a search Paul,I have 103 files with the .sys extention.....
28 are duplicates of another one....
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21-07-2024, 16:35
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Re: IT outages are reported across the world
Too many of these 'outages' happening lately. Banks etc. Think we all know who to blame. Either we don't get an explanation or its blamed on things like a software update. Propaganda at work.
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21-07-2024, 17:26
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Re: IT outages are reported across the world
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Too many of these 'outages' happening lately. Banks etc. Think we all know who to blame. Either we don't get an explanation or its blamed on things like a software update. Propaganda at work.
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it's starmageden 
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21-07-2024, 17:51
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Re: IT outages are reported across the world
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Think we all know who to blame. Either we don't get an explanation or its blamed on things like a software update. Propaganda at work.
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Ummm, Do enlighten us. 
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