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by FreakLegion 697 days ago
> the fact is that bad data in C-00000291.sys in combination with bad validition in the driver causes it to crash

This is, in fact, not a fact. We really don't know yet.

CrowdStrike blue screened one of my laptops twice right as the incident was getting started, before a fix was available. There was no boot loop in my case. I was back up and in the middle of an episode of Breaking Bad the second time it got me, 30 minutes after the first. Did the agent wait that long to load a content update it had already loaded before? Maybe, but it's at least as likely that the content was loaded the whole time, and that some activity pattern set it off. Thus, I'm skeptical of the problem being simple content validation.